In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily … declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic convergence of new EU-accession countries. EU15 income inequality fell … terms of poverty reduction. It also shows that the patterns of income convergence across member states differ across …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this … inequality in wage incomes after 2005/2006. Our results suggest that, despite further increases in wage inequality, inequality in … compensated otherwise rising inequality in annual labour incomes. On the other hand, income inequality did not fall in a more …

exacerbate the trend of income inequality that has risen sharply in Germany since the mid-1990s. More specifically, whereas the …

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 …