Bönke, Timm; Lüthen, Holger - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 49, pp. 1271-1277
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 …