persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … wage inequality is rising strongly - driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … contribute strongly to the rise in wage inequality. Among these, the firm coefficients effect dominates, which is almost …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level …, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate … whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find only weak evidence that Germans are …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …