ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor … market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage … distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage …

for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …

: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test … the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …