Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences strong deregulation, deunionization and a shift in employment from the …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …

employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use … years after the reform, the wages of employees in deregulated crafts increased by five percent less than wages of employees …