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

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. …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non … part, by technological change. We also show that these task changes are related to the recent polarization of employment …

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 …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … to skill level and employment status. While life-cycle wage growth is in general much lower for females compared to males …. Surprisingly, we do not find any cohort effects for wages of female employees. …

effect in western and eastern Germany. The novel feature of our analysis is that we use a longitudinal data set. Thus, in … contrast to previous studies, we seek to assess the extent to which differences in wages between workers in covered and …-sectional data. Industrylevel contracts in western Germany and firm-level contracts in eastern Germany are associated with a small …

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. …