We document facts about earnings and disposable income inequality and growth in Denmark in the period 1987-2016. During this period, the distribution of log earnings growth exhibits skewness that varies with the business cycle and has strong excess kurtosis. Denmark has a progressive income tax...

This paper provides new stylized facts about labor earnings inequality and dynamics in France for the period 1991-2016. Using linked employer-employee data, we show that (i) labor inequality in France is low compared to other developed countries and has been decreasing until the financial crisis...

In this paper, we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document...

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us-for the first time-to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that...

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...

In this paper we examine nominal earnings flexibility in Ireland during the Great Recession. The Irish case is particularly interesting because it has been one of the countries most affected by the crisis. Using tax return data that are free of reporting error and cover the entire population of...

The dispersion of individual returns to experience, often referred to as heterogeneity of income profiles (HIP), is a key parameter in empirical human capital models, in studies of life-cycle income inequality, and in heterogeneous agent models of life-cycle labor market dynamics. It is commonly...

In der öffentlichen Diskussion wird von vielen Seiten eine Erhöhung des Mindestlohns auf 12 Euro gefordert, um ihn existenzsichernd zu machen. Allerdings erreicht schon heute ein Alleinstehender, der vollzeitbeschäftigt zum Mindestlohn arbeitet, mit seinem Nettoverdienst in etwa die...

Sowohl die Bruttolöhne als auch die bedarfsgewichteten Haushaltsnettoeinkommen haben in Deutschland seit 1995 inflationsbereinigt deutlich zugelegt. Insbesondere unter Vollzeitbeschäftigten fallen die realen Zuwächse bei den Löhnen mit einem Plus von mehr als 20 Prozent besonders positiv...