periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …

life cycle effects from macroeconomic effects can describe the dynamics of wages. Our results indicate that insider wages … are uniformly affected by a acroeconomic trend. For some education groups, this also holds for entry wages. Since within …

Das immer drängender werdende Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland macht eine intensive Diskussion über Ursachen …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the structure of earnings in West Germany across skill groups and …

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 …