This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … increase in life-time earnings inequality. -- Lifetime Earnings ; Earnings Distribution ; Inequality ; Mobility ; Germany …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … increase in lifetime earnings inequality. -- Lifetime Earnings ; Earnings Distribution ; Inequality ; Mobility ; Germany …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime …

relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses from renting. Using micro data from tax statistics we analyze the income tax …

This study provides the first absolute income mobility estimates for postwar Germany. Using various micro data sources … higher income inequality contributed similarly to these trends. …

that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … Germany in the eighties and nineties. Special emphasis is given to the separation of permanent and transitory components, the … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest …

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both …