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 … resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of wages in depth. The findings show that in …

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio … is shown that the structure of wages has remained remarkably stable over this time period, and that the German structure …

This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective …

dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced …, security, and logistics services in administrative data using the universe of social security records in Germany. We document a …