The Personal Distribution of Income in an International Perspective

This title examines the development and the dynamics of the personal distribution of income in Germany, Britain, Sweden, and the US. It looks at the distribution of labour income, and expands to include all monetary incomes of private households.

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.