improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …

This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …