This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After...

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place at either industry or firm level. Collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density. The share of employees covered by collective bargaining in a single firm can vary between 0% and 100%. This institutional setup suggests that...

Support of training has been a very important instrument of active labor market policy in East Germany. This paper attempts an evaluation of the employment and wage effects of training supported by public income maintenance outside of a firm. After describing the labor market developments in...

"The introduction of minimum wages has already been discussed intensively in Germany. This comment is written from the viewpoint of an empirical labor economist. There are two objectives of this paper. First, the paper refers to some aspects of economic theory which have so far not been...

"In his article 'The tale of the inflexible German labour market' ('Die Mär vom starren deutschen Arbeitsmarkt') in this issue of the Journal for Labour Market Research (ZAF) Werner Sengenberger criticises our introductory paper 'Potentials for flexibility in heterogeneous labour markets - an...

In diesem Beitrag weist Bernd Fitzenberger, Universität Freiburg, auf einige wirtschaftstheoretische Aspekte hin, die seiner Meinung nach in der aktuellen Debatte in Deutschland bisher nicht hinreichend beachtet wurden, und diskutiert relevante empirischen Ansätze. Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis,...

Quantile regression methods are emerging as a popular technique in econometrics and biometrics for exploring the distribution of duration data. This paper discusses quantile regression for duration analysis allowing for a flexible specification of the functional relationship and of the error...