We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …-in-differences based on unconditional quantile regressions applied to German administrative employment data. The results show significant … wage effects of varying magnitudes along the lower half of the wage distribution. Employment dynamics do not explain …

While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level … wage distribution. Employment dynamics cannot explain the effects along the wage distribution, implying strong wage …

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …-in-differences based on unconditional quantile regressions applied to German administrative employment data. The results show significant … wage effects of varying magnitudes along the lower half of the wage distribution. Employment dynamics do not explain …

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables … and occupation explain fairly little. Extending the analysis to total employment confirms the basic findings, while …