This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … simulate the magnitude of wage changes within the respective skill groups that would have been necessary to halve skill …

dominating for low-skilled labor and technology effects for high-skilled labor. At the same time, the wage bargaining …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits … apprenticeship result in average wage losses, whereas an occupation change within the training firm results in persistent wage gains …. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits … apprenticeship result in average wage losses, whereas an occupation change within the training firm results in persistent wage gains …. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage …

We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage … distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages … negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the lower part of the wage distribution. Using a random sample of German social …