We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany …. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …Tarifverhandlungen in Deutschland finden entweder auf Branchenebene oder auf Firmenebene statt; die Tarifbindung ist …

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … empirical analysis attempts to discriminate between the two hypotheses for West Germany analyzing the relationship between wage …