At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skill-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

This paper investigates women's and men's labor supply to the firm within a structural approach based on a dynamic model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked employer-employee dataset for Germany, we find that labor supply elasticities are small (0.9-2.4) and that...