transitions between labor status or jobs, whereas for those at the top, earnings changes are mainly induced by wage rate growth …

The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …

This paper develops a sufficient statistics approach for estimating the role of search frictions in wage dispersion and … lifecycle wage growth. We show how the wage dynamics of displaced workers are directly informative of both for a large class of … search models. Specifically, the correlation between pre- and post-displacement wages is informative of frictional wage …

-productivity gap. We perform an analysis of the relationship between age, wage and productivity using a matched worker-firm panel …

drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker … characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion. We also analyze … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East …