%0 e Book %A Fitzenberger, Bernd and Seidlitz, Arnim %I IZA - Institute of Labor Economics %C Bonn, Germany %D 2019 %G English %B Discussion paper series / IZA %~ Universitätsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola" %T The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany %U http://ftp.iza.org/dp12529.pdf %X 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. %Z https://katalog.ub.tu-freiberg.de/Record/0-1676022961 %U https://katalog.ub.tu-freiberg.de/Record/0-1676022961