income in East Germany. The difference in biases in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

, I find that individuals revise their expectations about potential outside wage offers upward, anchoring their beliefs in …

Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the … labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The …

The standard model of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market suggests that a positive tax … rate on minimum wage income is Pareto inefficient. However, most countries with minimum wage legislation exhibit a positive … tax rate on minimum wage income. We solve this alleged puzzle by introducing discrimination of individuals that do not …

We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from … administrative data on individual employment outcomes over a 25-year period, we find important heterogeneity in wage penalties … wage penalties, occupations with a decreasing routine intensity experience stable or even increasing wages. These findings …

calculate the optimal path/speed of price and wage adjustment in terms of deeper parameters like the slope of the Phillips curve …

We study the role of heterogeneous preferences at the spousal level and that of spousal mutual insurance against wage … Bayesian techniques and generate gender-specific wage-elasticities of market hours in the cross-section and for all couples … shapes the elasticities’ size and distribution, especially for high and low hours worked and wage groups. Our setting is …