It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of …

The @German DeZIM.panel is an online access panel that provides data specifically for topics regarding migration and … integration. It includes an oversampling for several migrant groups in Germany, and thus allows specific subgroup analyses. Due to …The German DeZIM.panel is an online access panel that provides data specifically for topics regarding migration and …

The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this … relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting … activity. By applying fixed-effects and first-differencing panel data methods it is shown that patenting activity has a …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …