Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large … sample of earnings biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime … earnings of male workers has a Gini coefficient around .2 for cohorts born in the late 1930s and early 1940s; this amounts to …