This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … decomposition over time. Specifically, we show that the mobility component of the decomposition, as measured by Gini correlation …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … trends, inequality, and mobility with results based on SOEP, a widely used alternate panel survey of private households in … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well … as on income mobility. These findings are obviously even more important in cross-national comparative analyses if the …

Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility … as an equalizer of permanent income. The proposed representation is called a mobility curve and forms the basis for …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession, inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

-cycle earnings, occupational mobility and unemployment is predominantly driven by skills acquired prior to labor market entry or by … heterogeneity and permanent shocks to skills. I find that a large fraction of life-cycle income inequality is driven by match … dynamics and investigate if recent increases in residual inequality are caused by an increase of the variances of permanent …

2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in permanent wage inequality. The transitory component of ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …