local labor markets in Germany between 1979 and 2007. In order to directly relate technological change to subsequent … polarization in Germany in the sense that employment growth deteriorates at the middle of the skill distribution relative to the …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is … fraction of the rising dispersion in wages and (to a lesser extent) productivity is accounted for by changes in the …