and policy responses in real-time and provide the first application to Germany in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We … Germany does not help to improve its fiscal sustainability, and only an increase in the retirement age to 70 years will help …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … ; decomposition ; Germany …

We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …

illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …

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 …

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 …