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 …

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 …

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 …

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

macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric …; afterwards, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …