and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …

within the population, especially older single people. -- alternative equivalence scale ; Germany ; USA ; distribution of … Äquivalenzskalen ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Ungleichheit ; Armut …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that …