Biewen, Martin; Plötze, Daniela - 2018
Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours … for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of … the variance of log earnings into the variances of hours, wage rates and their covariance, and decompositions based on …