Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …-level productivity exceeds their contribution to the wage bill. On the methodological side, we note that failure to account for the …

. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials … affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the …