This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … simulate the magnitude of wage changes within the respective skill groups that would have been necessary to halve skill …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that … wage inequality is rising strongly ﾖ driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are …

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our …, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a Blinder-Oaxaca type decomposition of the changes in the entire wage … literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits … apprenticeship result in average wage losses, whereas an occupation change within the training firm results in persistent wage gains …. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz … (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and … counterfactual distributions that would have prevailed, had the minimum wage not been introduced. Our results suggest that its … introduction almost eliminated wage rates below its threshold and, depending on the specification considered, led to spill …

unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment …