modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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 …

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 …

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 …