This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum …, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for … roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …

This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East … wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … higher level of wage inequality and a lower level of wage mobility than men in both parts of the country throughout the …

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 …. Using German individual register data, we document a clear upward trend in the persistence of low-wage employment for both … explained by an increase in genuinestate dependence, which occurs if low-wage employment today causes lowwage employment in the …