Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that … wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also …