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 …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … contribute strongly to the rise in wage inequality. Among these, the firm coefficients effect dominates, which is almost …

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 …

qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …