"This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development since the 1990s. At the same time, the polarization hypothesis is discussed. Wage...

"This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development since the 1990s. At the same time, the polarization hypothesis is discussed. Wage...

"We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four distinct time intervals spanning the period 1985-2009. Unlike standard wage models,...

This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development since the 1990s. At the same time, the polarization hypothesis is discussed. Wage...

"The development of the western German wage structure in the 1980s has been analysed on the basis of the socio-economic panel (SOEP) and the IAB employment sample (IABS). We demonstrate that the large increase in inequality which was ascertained by previous studies on the basis of the IABS can...

"The development of the western German wage structure in the 1980s has been analysed on the basis of the socio-economic panel (SOEP) and the IAB employment sample (IABS). We demonstrate that the large increase in inequality which was ascertained by previous studies on the basis of the IABS can...