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Top Incomes in Germany 1871-2013

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  • Charlotte Bartels

    (DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)

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This study provides new homogeneous series on top income shares in Ger- many from the early phase of industrialization until present. German income tax statistics o_er the unique possibility to go back as far as 1871 and produce series for eight German states ranging from heavily industrializing Prussia or Saxony to mostly agrarian Baden or Wurttemberg. Top income earners in Germany are mostly business owners who bene_t from global demand for their goods. High income concentration of the industrialization period temporarily dropped in the 1920s, when hyperination eroded _nancial assets and exorbi- tant wage increases curtailed business pro_ts, but then reached new heights under the Nazi regime. The German development is in contrast to other in- dustrialized countries like France, the UK, and the US, where World War II brought a strong and lasting reduction in income concentration at the top. Since the turn of the millennium, top income shares in Germany are on the rise catching up with the levels of the UK and the US.

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  • Charlotte Bartels, 2017. "Top Incomes in Germany 1871-2013," Working Papers halshs-02797481, HAL.
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    1. Advani, Arun & Summers, Andy, 2020. "Capital Gains and UK Inequality," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1260, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
    2. Giacomo Gabbuti, 2018. "Labour Shares and Income Inequality: Insights from Italian Economic History, 1895-2015," HHB Working Papers Series 13, The Historical Household Budgets Project.

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