advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …

That historical inequality can affect long run macroeconomic performance has been argued by a large literature on … endogenous inequality using models of indivisibilities in occupational choice, in the presence of borrowing constraints. These …

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

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …. The following chapters analyse the societal consequences of inequalities. Chapter 4 looks at the unequal distribution of …