We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments’ real wage cyclicality over the business … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …

This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using … workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that vacancy durations are negatively correlated with the starting wage and … that this negative association is particularly strong with the establishment component of the starting wage. We also …

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

worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity … the minimum wage cuts deep into the wage distribution. I show that gradually implementing a high minimum wage is necessary …

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …