lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled … of intensified international competition and skillbiased technological change on the relative employment and earnings … is rather low. The decline in the employment share of unskilled workers attributable to an inflexible earnings structure …

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …

bill if employment effects neglected by previous empirical studies are taken into account. Any increase in the total wage … bill by higher wage rates set is equally compensated for by lower levels of employment. If adjustments in employment due to …

In this contribution employment effects of wage subsidies and a minimum wage are analyzed for Germany. Existing studies … for the construction sector and simulations of a statutory minimum wage unanimously point to employment losses of a … general minimum wage for Germany. The magnitude of the negative employment effects depends on the minimum wage level …