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A growing income polarization and the related income spread takes more and more attention in the public debate. An … increase in the polarization of income is not only in terms of the social context and the feeling of injustice of enormous … great relevance. With an increasing income polarization the shape of the distribution changes such that both the upper and …
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Summary This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We...
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percent of the median. In the US, however, there has been a stronger increase in income polarization than in Germany. This is …
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An increase in income polarization experiences more and more attention in the public debate. A polarization of income … class really shrinking due to a polarization of income distribution? While empirical studies show a unanimous picture of a … growing polarization in 2000, these results are controversial because of an arbitrary definition of respective income …
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percent of the median. In the US, however, there has been a stronger increase in income polarization than in Germany. This is …
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