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

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …

centralized to a market economy and the estimation of plausible counterfactual income streams. Our central result is that 19 …

-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …