the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages …, describe the development of various wage measures, labor productivity and unit labor costs in East Germany in relation to West … Germany, and relate these developments to the system of collective wage bargaining. At the microeconomic level, we describe …

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled … of intensified international competition and skill?biased technological change on the relative employment and earnings … is rather low. The decline in the employment share of unskilled workers attributable to an inflexible earnings structure …

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …

The development and the structure of the distribution of hourly wages in Eastem Germany between 1990 and 1994 are … inequality and decompose the changes in the inequality of hourly wages into the changes between and within socio-economic groups …. The economic factors discussed in the literature as infIuencing the distribution of hourly wages are summarized and …

Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings … inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …

the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages …, describe the development of various wage measures, labor productivity and unit labor costs in East Germany in relation to West … Germany, and relate these developments to the system of collective wage bargaining. At the microeconomic level, we describe …

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled … of intensified international competition and skill?biased technological change on the relative employment and earnings … is rather low. The decline in the employment share of unskilled workers attributable to an inflexible earnings structure …