This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual …

income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well …-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of income in a dynamic framework. This finding holds after controlling for other … individual’s own history as well as the relative income performance with respect to the others living in the society under …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor 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 …

selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum ("Imputed Rent") und deren Einfluß auf die personelle Einkommensverteilung. Nach einer theoretischen … Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Ausgewählte Ergebnisse werden mit solchen auf Basis der Panel Study of Income Dynamics … Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit "Imputed Rent" bei Analysen zur personellen Einkommensverteilung und Einkommensmobilität. …

I interpret the "distribution of income by sectors of the population" to refer to the personal distribution of income …, with evidence about it derived from household surveys. Section 1 outlines the links between the personal and factor income … distributions, and includes a discussion of research using National Accounts data to check the quality of household survey income …

This study provides the first absolute income mobility estimates for postwar Germany. Using various micro data sources … the parental income distribution, we find that children from middle class families experienced the largest percentage … point drop in absolute income mobility (-31pp). Our counterfactual analysis shows that lower economic growth rates and …

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial … genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non …