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 …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment …-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box-Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use … inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …

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

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings …