Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
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 men and women. To explore whether the observed rise in...