EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

In West Germany, the average size of establishments declined during the 1990s and started to increase again in the late … establishments to vary their employment level, consistent with monopsony power on the labor market. Moreover, our regional analyses …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …