"Verstärkte Unterschiede in den Strukturen der Arbeitslosigkeit nach Qualifikationsgruppen, Wirtschaftssektoren und/oder Regionen gelten nach grundlegenden ökonomischen Modellvorstellungen als Effekte mangelnder Flexibilität oder von Nivellierungstendenzen der Lohnstrukturen. Ausgehend von...

Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

"Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

"Nachdem wegen der zurückhaltenden Lohnabschlüsse der Tarifparteien in den vergangenen Jahren neuerdings weniger die Entwicklung des Lohnniveaus als der Lohnstruktur diskutiert wird, gewinnen arbeitsmarkttheoretische und empirische Untersuchungen des Zusammenhangs zwischen sektoraler,...

The paper explores wage setting practice in eastern Germany since unification. It gathers evidence to support the claim that economically non-viable collective agreements have fostered decentralized wage setting. First, we document the declining organization rates of both employers and...

This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development since the 1990s. At the same time, the polarization hypothesis is discussed. Wage...

This contribution focuses on the relation between wage inequality, participation behavior and employment and the analysis in the project 'Flexibility of the wage distribution, inequality and employment'. In this project we investigate whether the popular idea of an encrusted German labor market...

This article studies the role of collective bargaining coverage for the relationship between wages and firm-specific performance. The empirical evidence based upon German linked employer-employee data provides support for the hypothesis that industry-level contracts suppress firm wage...

Summary It is commonly known that every economy is faced with the problem of unevenly distributed labour demand changes across industries, occupations and regions. In competitive labour markets flexible wages and the mobility of labour would lead to a new equilibrium distribution of wages and...