caa a22 4500 605534608 CHVBK 20210128100843.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10663-015-9282-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10663-015-9282-6 Capital income shares and income inequality in 16 EU member countries [Elektronische Daten] [Eva Schlenker, Kai Schmid] In this paper, we estimate the effect of changes in capital income shares on inequality of gross household income. Using EU-SILC data covering 16 EU countries from 2005 to 2011 we find that the level of capital income shares is positively associated with the concentration of gross household income. Moreover, we show that the transmission of a shift in capital income shares into the personal distribution of income depends on the concentration of capital income in an economy. At the mean of the distribution of capital income a 1 percentage point increase of the capital share is associated with a 0.8 percentage point increase of the Gini coefficient of gross household income. Our findings imply that in many industrialized countries income inequality has by no means evolved independently from the observed structural shift in factor income towards a higher capital income share over the last decades. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Factor income shares nationallicence Income inequality nationallicence EU-SILC nationallicence Fixed effects nationallicence Schlenker Eva University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany aut Schmid Kai Macroeconomic Policy Institute, Hans-Böckler-Str. 39, 40476, Düsseldorf, Germany aut Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/2(2015-05-01), 241-268 0340-8744 42:2<241 2015 42 10663 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-015-9282-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-015-9282-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schlenker Eva University of Hohenheim, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schmid Kai Macroeconomic Policy Institute, Hans-Böckler-Str. 39, 40476, Düsseldorf, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/2(2015-05-01), 241-268 0340-8744 42:2<241 2015 42 10663