The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
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- Fräßdorf, Anna & Grabka, Markus M. & Schwarze, Johannes, 2008. "The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA," IZA Discussion Papers 3492, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Anna Fräßdorf & Markus M. Grabka & Johannes Schwarze, 2008. "The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA," Working Papers 89, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
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Inequality; capital income; factor decomposition; CNEF;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D33 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Factor Income Distribution
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- F0 - International Economics - - General
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