This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … inequality reveals the effects of Germany's slightly older population and smaller household sizes, as well as the impact of …

post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …

. In Germany, gifts are highly private and leave more scope for decision-making than the regulated bequests. Thus, gifts …

and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany …

single-parent household. At the community level, women from Eastern Germany moved farther, suggesting that the surplus of men …