Lüthen, Holger; Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime earnings of male workers has a Gini coefficient around...