the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages …, describe the development of various wage measures, labor productivity and unit labor costs in East Germany in relation to West … Germany, and relate these developments to the system of collective wage bargaining. At the microeconomic level, we describe …

the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages …, describe the development of various wage measures, labor productivity and unit labor costs in East Germany in relation to West … Germany, and relate these developments to the system of collective wage bargaining. At the microeconomic level, we describe …

the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages …, describe the development of various wage measures, labor productivity and unit labor costs in East Germany in relation to West … Germany, and relate these developments to the system of collective wage bargaining. At the microeconomic level, we describe …

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled … of intensified international competition and skill-biased technological change on the relative employment and earnings … is rather low. The decline in the employment share of unskilled workers attributable to an inflexible earnings structure …

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …

Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty … microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household level …

Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings … inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …