stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …

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 …

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 …

related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled in the industrialised world, combined with flexible wages in … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …