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 …

inequality averse as umpires. A within-subjects analysis shows that about one half became less inequality averse, one quarter … became more inequality averse and one quarter left its behavior unchanged as umpires. In the risk scenario, subjects become … on average more inequality averse in their umpire roles. A within-subjects analysis shows that half of them became more …

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 …