We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession, inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

did markedly increase. Wage mobility has hardly changed since the mid-1990s: almost two thirds of employees in the lowest …

sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by … of wage inequality for these two types of data. For this purpose, different sample restrictions are applied. The …

wage inequality for full-time workers. The approach differentiates by gender and region. The analysis confirms the result … of other studies that show a sharp increase in wage inequality in Germany from the mid-1990s until 2010. The increase can … changes in the composition of the workforce. As an interesting phenomenon, the rise in the inequality indicators did not …

education, i.e., groups that are characterised by higher relative wages and higher within-group wage inequality. Our analysis … compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. Empirical evidence based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from … background of the labour force can explain up to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality during this …