Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education …

throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. -- wage inequality … ; censored quantile regression ; Machado/Mata decomposition ; IABS ; East Germany ; West Germany …

We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in (the … former) East and West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located … in East Germany are also considered. The implemented techniques allow us to control both for worker- and plant …

Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education …

qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …

-specific components. We employ linked employer-employee data from Germany to structurally estimate the parameters of the model. Using …

identified. We argue that if a reduced form estimation of RTT is undertaken, firm-year fixed effects must be added in order to … eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …

This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over …