development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

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 … close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …

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

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …

This paper characterises establishments that pay higher seniority wages than their competitors. It tests whether … seniority wages are paid on the basis of agency, human capital or efficiency wage considerations. A representative linked … employeremployee panel and an innovative two-step estimation strategy are used to first calculate individual seniority wages taking …