Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined … evidence that the large public sector in Germany in effect functions as an employer of last resort, absorbing some otherwise …

As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …

The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …