education, i.e., groups that are characterised by higher relative wages and higher within-group wage inequality. Our analysis … compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. Empirical evidence based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from … background of the labour force can explain up to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality during this …

wage inequality for full-time workers. The approach differentiates by gender and region. The analysis confirms the result … of other studies that show a sharp increase in wage inequality in Germany from the mid-1990s until 2010. The increase can … changes in the composition of the workforce. As an interesting phenomenon, the rise in the inequality indicators did not …