This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test … the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a … explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the measurement process that leads to observable earnings changes, thereby … directly tackling the question of whether and to which extent downward nominal wage rigidity exists in German micro data. We …

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is … relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

search duration, the accepted wage, and the job duration to be connected in a system of simultaneous equations which is … duration and the accepted wage affect job duration positively, but the estimated covariance terms suggest unobserved factors …