break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been … Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in the U.S. in the 1990s, and the increase in wage inequality in Germany was … age, time, and cohort effects, we find a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort …

role for the rise in inequality of full-time wages, considering the case of Germany. While there are also strong …The incidence of employment interruptions and temporary part-time work has grown strongly among full-time workers, yet … fairly little of the inequality rise. Extending the analysis to total employment reveals substantial negative selection into …