wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been … Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in the U.S. in the 1990s, and the increase in wage inequality in Germany was … age, time, and cohort effects, we find a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort …