“…On a last note, we should emphasise that our analysis is restricted to the fulltime employed, while the last two decades have witnessed a growing prevalence of so-called atypical employment contracts such as temporary work, fixed-term contracts or 'mini-jobs' (Eichhorst and Buhlmann, 2015;Eichhorst and Marx, 2019). These more precarious forms of employment are undoubtedly contributing to larger levels of wage inequality than the ones we can observe in our study.…”