Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …

distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage … structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features … close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be … into the comparison, the unformly superior employment performance of a decentralized wage bargaining system is questioned … bargaining takes account of the long-run employment consequences of wage setting. …

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …