Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … relative importance across income percentiles. In Germany, there are no significant nonlinearities at all. …

Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and a newly available task database for Germany, the evolution of wage inequality …

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 …

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 …