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 …

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 …

This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an … influencing earnings inequality over the life cycle. Neighborhoods and schools influence earnings only early in the working life …

inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation … in inequality perceptions both across and within countries as well as survey-years. Focusing on the association between … aggregate-level inequality measures and individuals' subjective perception of wage inequality, it turns out that there is both a …

Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …, increasing inequality. Significant gains in educational attainment, the demographic transition, and rising female labor force …