four countries: Canada, the United States, Australia and Germany. This paper also addresses the question of the effects of …

both for individual retirement planning and for policymakers, especially if legislation makes annuitization, at least in …

Australia and Canada perform considerably better, in terms of distributional outcomes, than in either Germany or the United …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

untersuchen. Auf Basis des sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) analysieren wir erstmalig diesen Zusammenhang für Deutschland. Dabei … erwarten, dass die Finanzkrise eine dämpfende Wirkung auf die Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland haben wird. … socio-economic panel (SOEP) we make a we make a first attempt to measure these effects for Germany. We find only little …