development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …

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 …

apprentices are engaged in work for which, in terms of wages, they are too expensive afterwards. The young trained worker bases … data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …

qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …

apprentices are engaged in work for which, in terms of wages, they are too expensive afterwards. The young trained worker bases … data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be … into the comparison, the unformly superior employment performance of a decentralized wage bargaining system is questioned … bargaining takes account of the long-run employment consequences of wage setting. …

vergleichsweise hohen Lohn anstreben. Angesichts der theoretisch unklaren Ergebnisse plädiert die Arbeit für eine Reform des FTV …This paper examines critically the system of industry-level wage bargaining in Germany. More specifically, it shows … that the importance of industry-level wage bargaining declines in Germany and that one major reason for this development is …

This paper provides new estimates of a timevarying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by … inflation rates is employed. Therefore, either the NAIRU concept is not applicable to Germany or, as it is our suggestion, one … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …