Topic Inequality

Income Mobility in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom

Inequality Trends in the German Income Distribution

Changes in Permanent Income Inequality in the United States and Germany in the 1990s

Intergenerational Correlations in Earnings in Three Countries: The United Kingdom, Germany and the United States

Immigrants in Two Modern Nations: Characteristics of the Foreign and Native Born Populations in Germany and the United States

Earnings Growth for Foreign Guest Workers and West Germans: Cross-Section and Panel Estimates

Income, Change in Income and Life-Satisfaction: A Study over Time in West Germany and the Russian Federation

Best Cases of the Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: The Netherlands, United States, and West Germany

The Effect of Redistribution of Income Risk: Estimates from the PACO Database

How Unification and Immigration Affected the German Income Distribution

The German economy is not only affected by unification of Germany but by a significant influx of immigrants from abroad and huge migration from East to West Germany around the date of unification. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) allows one to disentangle those effects by decomposition of the Theil I(0)-Index of inequality. In addition, the paper offers insights into the transition ...