Inequality

One of my core questions is how occupations and inequality are related. I study the influence of occupational regulations on economic inequality, on gender-specific inequalities and how changes in the occupational structure of countries contribute to inequality trends.

We introduce the main topics and debates of the special issue Occupations and social inequality.

Inequality of household incomes did not increase on aggregate since 2005 in Germany. We show that this is due to overlaying positive and negative trends.