Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …

lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects … disposable income of households. This requires taking into account the distribution of working hours as well as the tax …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …

income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy …. Drawing on empirical analysis of the links between structural policies and the distribution of labour income, the paper looks … at potential policy trade-offs and complementarities with respect to the two policy objectives of lowering income …

In this paper we explore the possibility of the application of GAMLSS regression techniques for the analysis of income … distributions in Germany following the reunification. We find that conditional income distributions can generally be modelled using …