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 …

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 …