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 … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

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

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we … find that net household income has remained fairly stable. -- Earnings Inequality ; Permanent Income Inequality …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …