This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the … sector, in East and West Germany, for men and women, as well as in large versus small firms. Among the most interesting …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s … ; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …

heterogeneity in returns to tenure for men in East and West Germany, employed in both the private and the public sector. We find … significantly different wage patterns in East- and West Germany as well as between the private and public sector. Independent of the … the first ten years of experience - and in contrast to the situation in West Germany - there appear to be no returns to …