Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33175
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2098
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
wage inequality
censored quantile regression
Machado/Mata decomposition
IABS
East Germany
West Germany
JEL: 
J31
C24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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