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 …

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 …

The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany's class … life satisfaction and whether, over the last decades, this class gradient increased in Germany, relative to the comparison …

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light …