Dieser Beitrag untersucht theoretische und empirische Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen dem Zentralisierungsgrad der Lohnverhandlungen (ZGL) und der Lohnbildung. Zuerst erfolgt eine kritische Übersicht der theoretischen und empirischen Literatur, die von der bekannten Hypothese von Calmfors...

Das immer drängender werdende Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland macht eine intensive Diskussion über Ursachen der Arbeitslosigkeit und Möglichkeiten zu deren Bekämpfung unabdingbar. Von vielen Seiten wird mehr denn je gefordert, daß die staatliche Arbeitsmarkt- und...

Dieser Beitrag behandelt die Problemstellung des Zentralisierungsgrades der Lohnverhandlungen (ZGL) im Rahmen der europäischen Integration. Ausgehend von der bekannten Hypothese von Calmfors und Driffill, nach der eine invers U-förmige Beziehung zwischen dem ZGL und der Lohnhöhe und damit...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Building on non-stationary search theory (<link href="#b35">Mortensen, 1977</link>; <link href="#b45">Van den Berg, 1990</link>), this article estimates the effects of UB on unemployment durations and future earnings using unique administrative data in Germany. We apply censored Box–Cox quantile regression....</p>

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...

Labor market participation rates of West German females have risen during the last decades, whereas participation rates of males have declined or remained stable. Nevertheless, differences in aggregate gender specific participation rates remain. The purpose of this paper is to compare life-cycle...

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...