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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the Millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019

German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...

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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996

The development of the West German earnings distribution in the 1980's is analysed on the basis of both the German Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's,...

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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution

Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998

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 …

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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare

Riedel, Lukas - 2024

This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...

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