This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

Die Einkommen von Selbstständigen als Unternehmern und Freien Berufen unterliegen im Zeitverlauf besonderen Schwankungen. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, die individuelle Dynamik der Einkommen von Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland mit einem dynamischen Paneldatenschätzer zu untersuchen....