The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages …

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages …

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 … are not completely consistent with either theory. However, as predicted by search theory, one robust result is that …

close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor … structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features …

heterogeneous returns we apply two estimation methods: Wooldridge?s (2004) approach that relies on conditional mean independence and …

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …