German family capitalism since the 1990s. Drawing on a sociology of ownership, we view family succession as a transfer regime … coordinates ownership transfer among founders through matchmaking. Our study contributes to research on family capitalism and …

. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

In this paper we investigate the impact of macroeconomic variables on income inequality. Using data from the German … impact of the macroeconomy on inequality. In fact, the dominating driver of inequality seems to be a time trend. Nevertheless …, estimating a vector-error-correction-model allows us to gauge the effect the financial crisis has on inequality. Assuming that …