We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

2005 only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and …

over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this … of inequality in wage incomes after 2005/2006. Our results suggest that, despite further increases in wage inequality …, inequality in equivalized net incomes did not increase further after 2005/2006 because increased within-year employment …

for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of … reweighting the conditional hours distribution. Depending on the inequality measure considered, our results suggest that between … 10 and 30 percent of the increase in male earnings inequality and 37 to 47 percent of the increase in female earnings …

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

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 …

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …

demonstrate, ineqord can be used for dominance checks as well as for estimation of indices of polarization and inequality. …