labor, wages were increasing disproportionately both for low- and highskilled labor whereas employment trends were favoring …The recent economic policy debate in Germany emphasizes the impact of globalization of the world economy on the German … Germany for the period from 1970 until German reunification in 1990. Building on the emphasis of trade theory on relative …

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 …

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 …

distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage … structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features … relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable share of wage …

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 …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …

, cannot be corroborated for wages determined at the firm level. Stochastic dominance is confirmed, as predicted by the …

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … of wage inequality in Germany. -- Wage inequality ; occupations ; tasks ; skill biased technical change ; polarization …