tracking inequality of opportunity over time. We find that, regardless of how well-being is measured, the same people are … possible to determine if the way well-being is measured matters for identifying who the opportunity-deprived are and for … opportunity-deprived and equality of opportunity has improved over the past 20 years. This suggests that going beyond income has …

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 …

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality …

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality …

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …

criteria to measuring inequality of opportunity in Germany. We illustrate our ex-post inequality of opportunity approach based …In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity …

the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay … distributions. The inequality-adjusted gender pay gap measures are significantly larger than suggested by standard indicators …, especially in East Germany. Women appear penalized twice, with both lower mean wages and greater wage inequality. A hypothetical …