EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

In West Germany, the average size of establishments declined during the 1990s and started to increase again in the late … establishments to vary their employment level, consistent with monopsony power on the labor market. Moreover, our regional analyses …

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 …

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

apprentices are engaged in work for which, in terms of wages, they are too expensive afterwards. The young trained worker bases … data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …

undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences strong deregulation, deunionization and a shift in employment from the …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …