Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … about 2/3 of the value of the Gini coefficient of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly … fathers. In contrast, both short-term and long-term intra-generational mobility have been rather stable. Longer unemployment …