Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
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 cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …