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 …

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 …

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 …

, the income tax is effectively progressive; (v) income taxation substantially reduces income inequality in Germany. …

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