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Polarization and rising wage inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...

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Polarization and rising wage inequality: comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

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The dynamic structure of wages in Germany 1976 - 1984: A cohort analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Hujer, Reinhard; MaCurdy, Thomas E.; … - 1995

Based on social security data, this paper analyzes wage trends for full employed males by estimating (censored) quantile regressions as functions of age, cohort, education, and year. We test whether a parsimonious specification separating life cycle effects from macroeconomic effects can...

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Ungleichheit unter der Lupe – neue politische Antworten auf ein bekanntes Thema

Niehues, Judith; Stockhausen, Maximilian; Peichl, Andreas; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 73 (2020) 02, pp. 03-26

Ungleichheit insgesamt ansteige. Dies bedeute jedoch nicht, dass es einer Person, die vorher in Deutschland lebe, schlechter gehe … Markteinkommen in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten drastisch gestiegen ist, da die Kapiteleinkommen stärker gewachsen sind … Immobiliengewinnern zählten Haushalte, die über Immobilienvermögen verfügen und das sei im "Mieterland Deutschland" noch nicht einmal …

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The dynamic structure of wages in Germany 1976 - 1984 : a cohort analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor) - 1995

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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019

German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...

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Four essays on the economics of education and inequality

Zimmermann, Markus - 2019

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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/1, pp. 1-14

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Rising wage inequality in Germany : increasing heterogeneity and changing selection into full-time work

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Lazzer, Jakob de - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and...

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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-33

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been different. Wage inequality increased along the entire wage distribution during the 1980s in the U.S. and since the mid 1990s in Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in...

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