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 …

's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … distribution of individual net worth as well as overall inequality. The present value of pension entitlements (including … results based on net worth only, inequality of our amended wealth measure is about 25 percent less. Moreover, we present …

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 … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased only marginally and …

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 … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased onlymarginally and …

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 …

post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …