Deutschlands Wirtschaft befindet sich am Ende eines dreijährigen Konjunkturaufschwungs. Das preisbereinigte Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist in dem Zeitraum um 7 % gestiegen, die Beschäftigung nahm um gut 2 % zu und die Zahl der Arbeitslosen ging um gut 700 000 Personen zurück; eine Entwicklung, die...

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

Using administrative data from Germany, this paper analyzes the relation between wages and past and current labor market conditions. Specifically, it explores whether the data is more consistent with implicit contract models (Beaudry/DiNardo, 1991) or a matching model with on-the-job search and...