@techreport{Kohn2006Rising,
abstract = {Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the
wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany
and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the wage distribution for women and in
the upper part for men. Censored quantile wage regressions reveal diverse age and skill
patterns. Applying Machado/Mata (2005)-type decompositions I conclude that differences in the composition of the work force only had a small impact on the observed wage
differentials between East and West Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured
better parts of the observed wage changes over time.},
address = {Mannheim},
author = {Karsten Kohn},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J31; C24; 330; Wage inequality; censored quantile regression; Machado/Mata decomposition; IABS; East Germany; West Germany; Lohnstruktur; Lohndifferenzierung; Deutschland; Alte Bundesl\"{a}nder; Neue Bundesl\"{a}nder},
language = {eng},
number = {06-31},
publisher = {Zentrum f\"{u}r Europ\"{a}ische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)},
title = {Rising Wage Dispersion, After All ! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century},
type = {ZEW Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24223},
year = {2006}
}
