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 …

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 …

income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

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 …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …