This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …

significantly increase performance in school and success in professional life as well as happiness at age forty-three. Since test …, occupational prestige and happiness significantly. However, there are differences between males and females. Furthermore, different … analysis is that parents investment in the noncognitive skills of their children is worthwhile and the costs of doing so are …