"Die vorliegende Arbeit ist ein Kondensat aus einem Forschungsauftrag der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit. Sie stellt eine umfassende theoretische und empirische Analyse der Qualifikationsund Verdienststrukturen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland für die beiden Jahre 1974/1977 dar. Die erste...

"Collectively bargained wage contracts - in Germany discussed under the heading ‘Flaechentarifvertraege’ - are often asserted to compress the wage structure, to systematically bias wages and therefore to destroy employment opportunities. Accordingly they are accused of being inefficient...

"Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The estimated gender earnings gap at the firm level falls from about 38 percent in 1997 to...

"This study examines empirically the relationship between employment and wage structures between and within qualification and age groups. First, the substitution elasticities between qualification and age groups are estimated and the changes in wages are determined that would have been necessary...

"This paper examines the effects of regional wage differentials on the development of employment in eastern Germany. For this, a model concept is briefly developed which is aimed at different market constellations of individual branches of the economy. The empirical approach used is a...

"The Establishment History Panel (BHP) for 1975 to 2005 includes all of the establishments throughout Germany which have at least one employee liable to social security as of the 30th of June of a given year or which have also had at least one marginal part-time employee as of 1999. For...

"The Establishment History Panel (BHP) for 1975 to 2006 includes all of the establishments throughout Germany which have at least one employee liable to social security as of the 30th of June of a given year or which have also had at least one marginal part-time employee as of 1999. For...

Die sektorale Lohndifferenzierung im verarbeitenden Gewerbe hat in den berücksichtigten zentraleuropäischen Ländern in den letzten zehn Jahren zugenommen. Die in den betrachteten EU-Beitrittsländern geschaffenen Arbeitsplätze fallen in erster Linie in die Kategorie arbeitsintensive Branchen...