This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and … whether through oc- cupational segregation women are locked in low wage careers (Kunze, 2005) or whether they can move up to … higher wage paths through mobility. We furthermore investigate whether patterns have changed across cohorts during the period …

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our …, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a BlinderOaxaca type decomposition of the changes in the entire wage … literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the …

unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …