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 …

The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in … unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage … existence of an East German wage curve. Due to the nonstationarity of spatial data, a global panel cointegration approach is …

potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since … not working significantly reduce wage pressures in the United States. This finding holds in panel data with state and year …

low-wage and high-wage industries. Dismissal regulations are found to mitigate the impact of shocks on both earnings and …

-profit sector, wage subsidies, and apprenticeships cause particularly favourable effects on the regional matching function and the …