Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are …

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

The study provides evidence for the rationale of wage rigidity in Germany compared to the United States. Based on a …. Furthermore, survey respondents indicated that labor union contracts and implicit contracts are important reasons for wage … capital seem to be more important explanations of wage rigidity. …

ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor … market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage … distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage …