Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the … labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The …

The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed … distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous … processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and measurement error. The fraction of workers facing wage increases that are …

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and …

threshold date and hence faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage …

capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … the wage differential between natives and immigrants …

part attributable to differences in the estimated coefficients. The method is applied to a decomposition of the gender wage …

end of the wage distribution. We further show that information on the productivity of an employee is, to a large extent …