This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … about 2/3 of the value of the Gini coefficient of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … about 2/3 of the value of the Gini coefficient of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … net effect of mobility on inequality and social welfare. …Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare …

activities. While intergenerational linkages are evident, we find a seemingly high degree of mobility across generations … land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …

inequality, and implement a new measure that is designed to reveal just how equalising or disequalising mobility has been. We …How much income mobility was there in South Africa between 2008 and 2012? Did this mobility serve to equalise or … relative economic mobility. We then turn our attention to the second question of the joint relationship between mobility and …

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 …