In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 …

Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that … wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … entire observation period. The mobility decline was sharper in East Germany so that the level of wage mobility has fallen …

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999-2000. These tax reforms …

(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany …

We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …