This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

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

. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices of income inequality require detection of thresholds. The …

distributions by absolute target shortfall indices are explored. Well-known inequality indices like the absolute Gini index and the …

There is by now a lot of evidence showing a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage and earnings inequality during the … to 2006, we do not find unambiguous empirical support for the frequent claims that recent increases in inequality have … been driven mainly by permanent disparities. From 1994 on, permanent inequality increases continuously, peaks in 2001 but …

significantly increases income inequality. We argue that although data reweighting can substantially improve the accuracy of …