intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a flexible semi …

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … of wage inequality in Germany. -- Wage inequality ; occupations ; tasks ; skill biased technical change ; polarization …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single … ; Germany …

model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked employer-employee dataset for Germany, we find that …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …