This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...

The behaviour of individual movements in the wage distribution over time can be described by a Markov process. To investigate wage mobility in terms of transitions between quintiles in the wage distribution we apply a mixed effects panel estimation method suggested by Honoré and Kyriazidou...

We develop a partial equilibrium job search model to analyse wage mobility and its relation to job mobility. The basic job search model is generalized by introducing wage renegotiation at the firm level, on-the-job search and heterogeneity of individuals through the value of time while...

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the...

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the...

This paper studies the sources of wage growth and the process of turnover for a sample of Italian workers employed in the private sector. Different theories based on the job-speci¯c skill investment are tested and discussed. Results indicate a very large proportion of wage cuts upon moving to a...

Nel presente studio si è cercato di analizzare la mobilità salariale dei lavoratori dipendenti in Italia come fenomeno di interesse autonomo, che caratterizza tipologie proprie delle posizioni lavorative e delle tipologie di lavoratori. Il fenomeno della mobilità è stato quindi analizzato...