Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints …

distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life cycle. While … for men earnings rise and inequality falls as they grow older, many women reduce working hours when starting a family such …

for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of … 10 and 30 percent of the increase in male earnings inequality and 37 to 47 percent of the increase in female earnings …Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours …

Earnings differences are a recurring topic of public discussion in Germany. Data from the long-term Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) study as well as a separate survey of German employees (LINOS) show that earnings inequalities are generally … perceived as fair while a substantial share of the respondents find the current earnings distribution in Germany unfair. This …

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual … earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for … prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings between 1960 and 2009. Over this period, the German labor market …

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual … earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime … age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings between 1960 and 2009. Over this period, the German labor market …

Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179-199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the …This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …