This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …, increasing inequality. Significant gains in educational attainment, the demographic transition, and rising female labor force …

-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … alternative private investments, our results indicate that they do not coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other …

these effects. We find, first, that the labour share remains an important determinant of overall inequality patterns, and …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …-labour ratios also emerge as a strong equalising factor, which has in part offset the impact of increasing wage inequality on the US …

in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient... …

To contribute to the debate on the recent inequality fall in Latin America, we provide evidence on the primary income … matched personal-firm income tax records, we find that trends are sensitive to the data source and inequality measure. Gini …