country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes …

conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

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 …

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax … reducing income inequality, even if it ledto a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution. The …

nonlinear Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is conducted to quantify the separate contribution of regional differences in households …' characteristics to the likelihood of being poor. Estimates from the decomposition indicate that differences in the distributions of …