Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Sommer, Mathias C. - 2009
In this paper we document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from …, especially after about 1998. Disposable income and consumption, on the other hand, display only a modest increase in inequality … over the same period. These trends occured against the backdrop of lower trend growth of earnings, incomes and consumption …