inequality between permanent and contract workers, since contract workers earn substantially lower wages than their counterpart …

worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper studies the public-private pay gap in the fast …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in …

affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …