apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

income variable is measured on a metric scale. However, estimation is not possible, using standard formulas, when the income … confidentiality constraints or in order to decrease item non-response. To enable the estimation of statistical indicators in these … and inequality in Germany. …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

Germany during the last three decades. Hereby, we take advantage of information contained in 25 waves of the Socio …-Economic Panel. Our analysis shows that in Germany IOP declined immediately after reunification, increased in the first decade of the … individuals that resided in West-Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, whose fathers had a high occupational position, and …

distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages … support our hypothesis, as employees with low wages have significantly lower local wage flexibility than high wage employees …. This effect is particularly relevant for the lower educational groups. On the other hand, employees with low wages tend to …

report results for Germany for the years 2002 through 2016. We find that consumption-weighted price markups are higher than …