At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are … development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status … with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important …

Germany’s export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study …-shoring). An export model is estimated covering the period 1993–2005. The dominant factor explaining the increase in market share … are trade relationships with fast growing countries. Regionalized production in the export sector also played a part …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a “Solovian zone“ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …