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 …

Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect … of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western … Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we … show that the wage gap for temps with low treatment intensity is high but decreases with exposure to the sector. It seems … to accept a sizeable wage disadvantage at first, indicating that temporary agency employment might stigmatise workers …

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 …

Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such …

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers … particularly pronounced among workers in low-wage firms. If workers had correct beliefs, at least 10% of jobs, concentrated in low-wage …

We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data … regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage … distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality …