conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

facilities. The redistributive effects of the feed-in tariff are evaluated by means of various inequality indices. All the … inequality measures indicate that Germany's feed-in tariff is mildly regressive. …

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social … income, and decreases (increases) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are … income inequality. We derive adjustment factors for benefit transfer to control for differences in income distributions …