TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fitzenberger, Bernd
AU  - Seidlitz, Arnim
        TI  - The 2011 Break in the Part-Time Indicator and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Germany
        PY  - 2019/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12529
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12529
        AB  - German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on estimating the probability of being a part-time worker before and after the break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany until 2010 is not a spurious consequence of the misreporting of working time. 
        KW  - wage inequality
KW  - SIAB7514
KW  - part-time indicator
KW  - Germany
        ER  -