, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage … and productivity developments in Germany, the European Union's periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain … along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …