We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased … about half of the recent decrease in wage inequality …

intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate input importers not only have a significant wage … intermediates might contribute to both inter-firm and intra-firm wage inequality. Our evidence is consistent with three important …

inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation … in inequality perceptions both across and within countries as well as survey-years. Focusing on the association between … aggregate-level inequality measures and individuals' subjective perception of wage inequality, it turns out that there is both a …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are …

wage instability, changing the nature of wage inequality from permanent to transitory. While we are in general unable to …

A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key …, the between-skill-group component of inequality may fall even as the skill premium rises – a pattern that is indeed … therefore not always useful in terms of understanding why broad inequality measures are changing …