Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries. …

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain … reduces inequality levels. The result is robust with respect to the instrument count and different data restrictions. Looking …

approach to European EU-SILC survey data which in some countries include administrative data. We find higher inequality in …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …

The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market ….Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how circumstances beyond the sphere of individual control explain inequality …

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …