The Personal Distribution of Income in an International Perspective

Irene Becker and Richard Hauser "Bringing Income Distribution in From The Cold" was the title Anthony B. Atkinson gave his Presidential Address to the Royal Economic Society in 1996. This provocative formulation was intended to draw attention to the way in which the subject of income distribution long has been marginalised in the field of economics (Atkinson 1997). In recent years, however, scientific interest in matters of personal income distribution has been growing. One reason for this recent concern stems from the political sphere: The factors of reinforced competition between countries due to the globalisation of markets and European integration, high unemployment rates and demographic changes necessitate reforms of labour markets, tax systems and social security systems. These reforms will affect both allocation and distribution, so that reliable information on both areas is needed to devise balanced political programs. Another reason for the burgeoning literature on personal income distribution is the improved availability of data on individual income, which are a major prerequisite for detailed analyses of distribution topics. Last but not least, the development of powerful computers, advanced statistics, econometric packages and extended micro-simulation models enables researchers both to work with huge individual data sets to describe and explain the personal distribution of income and to simulate the effects of political (social and economic) programs. The volume at hand is based on some of the research advances in this field during the last decade.

Recent research results are presented

Autorentext
Irene Becker arbeitet seit über einem Jahrzehnt selbstständig als Management-Beraterin für Großunternehmen. Sie führt regelmäßig Seminare und Coachings zum Thema durch. Richard Hauser ist Professor der Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/Main.

Klappentext
The book examines the development and the dynamics of the personal distribution of income in Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States and some other OECD countries. Starting with the distribution of labour income, the issue is then expanded to include all monetary incomes of private households and to adjust for household size by an equivalence scale. Some authors analyse one country in detail by decomposing aggregate inequality measures, other authors focus on direct comparisons of some features of the income distribution in Germany with those in Great Britain or in the United States. The results suggest dominant influences of unemployment as well as of tax and transfer policies and different welfare regimes, respectively, but also show that our knowledge about distributional processes is still limited.

Inhalt
I. Becker, R. Hauser: Introduction.- V. Steiner, T. Hölzle: The Development of Wages in Germany in the 1990s - Descriptions and Explanations.- H. Fabig: Labor Income Mobility - Germany, the USA and Great Britain Compared.- A. B. Atkinson: The Distribution of Personal Income: Complex Yet Over-Simplified.- R. Hauser, I. Becker: Changes in the Distribution of Pre-government and Post-government Income in Germany 1973 - 1993.- J. Merz: The Distribution of Income of Self-employed, Entrepreneurs and Professions as Revealed from Micro Income Tax Statistics in Germany.- S. Jenkins: Trends in the UK Income Distribution.- I. Eriksson, T. Pettersson: Income Distribution and Income Mobility - Recent Trends in Sweden.- J. Frick, F. Büchel, P. Krause: Public Transfers, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Germany and in the United States.- T. Smeeding: Changing Income Inequality in OECD Countries: Updated Results from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS).- J. Schwarze, J. R. Frick: Old Age Pension Systems and Income Distribution Among the Elderly: Germany and the United States Compared.

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