relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

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. … periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

seniority wages. This paper uses linked employeremployee data, aggregates individual seniority wages to the establishment level … paper finds that establishments with stronger seniority wages have a higher tenure but hire less older employees. …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …