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 …

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

changes in occupational match quality and the associated changes in wages. We first investigate how workers' match qualities …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …