normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

for a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills in the international analysis and are almost twice as large in Germany …

aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of …