survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation …

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 … earnings attrition in our estimation approach by accounting for the selection into low-wage employment and earnings retention …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

East and West Germany. Our results are based on static and dynamic panel econometrics/criminometrics. They confirm the …