Seminar topics/ papers:

1.  Autor, D. H., Levy, F., and Murnane, R. J. (2003): The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, 1279-1333
2. Barth, E., Bryson, A., Davis, J. C., and Freeman, R. (2014): It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S., NBER Working Paper No. 20447, Cambridge.
3. Biewen, M. and Juhasz, A. (2012): Understanding Rising Income Inequality in Germany, Review of Income and Wealth 58, 622-647.
4. Bönke, T., Corneo, G, and Lüthen, H. (2015): Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany, Journal of Labor Economics 33, 171-208.
5. Card, D, Heining, J., and Klein, P. (2013): Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality, Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, 967-1015.
6. Card, D. and Lemieux, T. (2001): Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, 705-746.
7. Dustmann, C. Ludsteck, J, and Schönberg, U. (2009): Revisiting the German Wage Structure, Quarterly Journal of Economics 124, 843-881.
8. Fuchs-Schündeln, N., Krueger, D., and Sommer, M. (2010): Inequality trends for Germany in the last two decades: A tale of two countries, Review of Economic Dynamics 13, 103–132.
9. Goldschmidt, D. and Schmieder, J. F. (2015): The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure, NBER Working Paper No. 21366, Cambridge.
10. Kopczuk, W., Saez, E., and Song, J. (2010): Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937, Quarterly Journal of Economics 125, 91-128. 

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