-time employment, high youth labour force underutilisation, and rising earnings inequality associated with falling relative earnings …

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

of the above three variables. Labour market institutions hence affect income inequality, though the sign of their impact … is ambiguous. Stronger unions and/or a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce inequality through reduced wage … examine these effects. We find, first, that the labour share remains an important aspect of overall inequality patterns, and …

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

these effects. We find, first, that the labour share remains an important determinant of overall inequality patterns, and …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …-labour ratios also emerge as a strong equalising factor, which has in part offset the impact of increasing wage inequality on the US …

The recent debate on trends in inequality in industrial countries has been marred by the lack of consensus about the … relevant concept of inequality. Labour economists are concerned with inequality in earnings, macroeconomists with movements in … the wage share, while policy-makers tend to focus on household income inequality. We provide a unifying framework to study …