Die Bedeutung der Beschäftigtenstruktur für die Lohnverteilung

Marcus Klemm (), Benjamin Weigert and Martin Zecher ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Martin Lange

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2015, vol. 95, issue 10, 689-695

Abstract: Demographic change and higher educational attainment imply a shift toward employees with more experience and/or better education, i.e., groups that are characterised by higher relative wages and higher within-group wage inequality. Our analysis addresses the importance of these structural changes in the labour force for the development of the wage distribution. These compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. Empirical evidence based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from the mid 1990’s to 2012 suggests that, in combination, the compositional changes in the age structure and the educational background of the labour force can explain up to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality during this time period. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: D31; J11; J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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