modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it ledto a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution. The …