break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … relating to skill level and employment status. While life-cycle wage growth is in general much lower for females compared to … distribution. Surprisingly, we do not find any cohort effects for wages of female employees. …

distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages … support our hypothesis, as employees with low wages have significantly lower local wage flexibility than high wage employees …. This effect is particularly relevant for the lower educational groups. On the other hand, employees with low wages tend to …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be … into the comparison, the unformly superior employment performance of a decentralized wage bargaining system is questioned … bargaining takes account of the long-run employment consequences of wage setting. …