Germany for the period from 1970 until German reunification in 1990. Building on the emphasis of trade theory on relative …The recent economic policy debate in Germany emphasizes the impact of globalization of the world economy on the German … series of empirical regularities characterizing trends in trade, total factor productivity growth, and labor markets. Then …

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

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

This paper examines critically the system of industry-level wage bargaining in Germany. More specifically, it shows … that the importance of industry-level wage bargaining declines in Germany and that one major reason for this development is …