Income inequality is usually considered in terms of its current development. A long-term perspective allows us to … inequality of wages and salaries earned over an entire working lifetime using a new kind of dataset. The findings show that the … inequality of lifetime social security earnings of western German male workers doubled between the 1935 and 1972 birth cohorts …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

Income inequality is usually considered in terms of its current development. A long-term perspective allows us to … inequality of wages and salaries earned over an entire working lifetime using a new kind of dataset. The findings show that the … inequality of lifetime social security earnings of western German male workers doubled between the 1935 and 1972 birth cohorts …