Dustmann, Christian; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the … top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage inequality started to rise also at the bottom of the distribution. Hence … substantial part of the increase in inequality, in particular at the top of the distribution. We further argue that selection into …