Joint Income-Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Lucerne Tax Data. Gallusser, D. & Krapf, M. Social Indicators Research, 163(1):251–295, August, 2022.
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Using tax data from the Swiss canton of Lucerne, we study how measures of economic inequality change if they account for income and wealth rather than income alone. Joint income-wealth, the sum of labor income and annuitized wealth, serves as a measure of combined inequality of income and wealth. Inequality measured using joint income-wealth is higher than measured using income alone. We refine existing annuitization techniques by introducing heterogeneous returns. The joint distribution of labor income and annuitized wealth displays strong tail dependence at the top and a negative association for negative annuitized wealth. A decomposition shows that the underlying marginal distributions of labor income and annuitized wealth account for most of joint income-wealth inequality, whereas their association matters only in the tails.
@article{GallusserKrapf2022,
  title = {Joint Income-Wealth Inequality: Evidence from {{Lucerne}} Tax Data},
  author = {Gallusser, David and Krapf, Matthias},
  year = {2022},
  month = aug,
  journal = {Social Indicators Research},
  volume = {163},
  number = {1},
  pages = {251--295},
  doi = {10.1007/s11205-022-02887-9},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-022-02887-9},
  abstract = {Using tax data from the Swiss canton of Lucerne, we study how measures of economic inequality change if they account for income and wealth rather than income alone. Joint income-wealth, the sum of labor income and annuitized wealth, serves as a measure of combined inequality of income and wealth. Inequality measured using joint income-wealth is higher than measured using income alone. We refine existing annuitization techniques by introducing heterogeneous returns. The joint distribution of labor income and annuitized wealth displays strong tail dependence at the top and a negative association for negative annuitized wealth. A decomposition shows that the underlying marginal distributions of labor income and annuitized wealth account for most of joint income-wealth inequality, whereas their association matters only in the tails.},
  keywords = {Determinants of Wealth and Wealth Inequality,Impacts of Wealth Inequality}
}

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