distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. -- Wage mobility ; ranks ; inequality ; distribution ; SOEP … development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are …

appears to be more relevant in explaining female workers’ wage transitions. -- Wage mobility ; trivariate probit ; linked …

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 … genuine state dependence during the 1990s is accounted for by compositional effects. -- Wage Mobility ; Trivariate Probit …

-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …