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 …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the … changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task assignments … strongly work towards reducing wage inequality. The coefficient effect for personal characteristics works towards an increase …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz … (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U … of trends in wage inequality differ strongly enough that technology effects alone cannot explain the empirical findings …

exacerbate the trend of income inequality that has risen sharply in Germany since the mid-1990s. More specifically, whereas the … the relative costs of homeownership versus renting, changes in household structure, and residential mobility toward larger …