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 …

We use income satisfaction data in order to estimate equivalence scales. Our method differs from previous attempts to … are income-dependent or to what extent they depend on specific household characteristics such as whether some household …) in income, which is what one would expect if the share of consumption goods generating economies of scale (such as …

over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this … opportunities compensated otherwise rising inequality in annual labour incomes. On the other hand, income inequality did not fall in …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …