Income Development and Distribution. WIFO Contribution to the Social Report for 2012

The increase in national income between 2010 and 2011 was caused by a noticeable raise of self employed income as well as property and asset incomes. The trend of decreasing labour share in national income was just suspended in 2009 but up to 2011 we again observe a decrease. In 2011 asset income and self employed income grew (+8.4 percent) twice as much as labour income (3.9 percent). Among employees we observe an increasing income inequality: within the past three decades the gini coefficient increased by 30 percent up to 0.452. Disposable income of households is distributed more equally than personal income of employees (gini coefficient 2010: 0.333).