throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment …

, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …

structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … empirical analysis attempts to discriminate between the two hypotheses for West Germany analyzing the relationship between wage …

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 …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

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 … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …