capitalization of past bequests and gifts. Our results indicate that wealth inequality below the top-1 percent is hardly affected by …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

Income inequality is usually considered in terms of its current development. A long-term perspective allows us to … inequality of wages and salaries earned over an entire working lifetime using a new kind of dataset. The findings show that the … inequality of lifetime social security earnings of western German male workers doubled between the 1935 and 1972 birth cohorts …