This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …

time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …