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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327816
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646514
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How inheritances shape wealth distributions: An international comparison
Bönke, Timm; von Werder, Marten; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573966
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany: Evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314562
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany: Evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372118
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296302
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299132
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307821
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285741
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Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287243