Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmid, Kai D.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1593-1635
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 …