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 … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

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 … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

Intergenerational persistence estimates are susceptible to several well-documented biases arising from income … measurement, and it has become standard practice to construct income measures to mitigate these. However, remaining bias can lead … literature. We show with theory and simulations that even using a 30-year income average can result in a small positive spurious …

underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … transmission channels along the income distribution in the United States indicate that the endowment effect slightly decreases in …