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 …

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 …

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 …

Based on social security data, this paper analyzes wage trends for full employed males by estimating (censored …-inequality stays fairly constant, the estimated profiles characterize the entire wage distribution. After controlling for age and … cohort, also wage differentials across education remain roughly stable.. …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …