Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29404 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 96-03
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
The development and the structure of the distribution of hourly wages in Eastem Germany between 1990 and 1994 are analysed on the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). To this end, we first calculate standard measures of inequality and decompose the changes in the inequality of hourly wages into the changes between and within socio-economic groups. The economic factors discussed in the literature as infIuencing the distribution of hourly wages are summarized and analysed by way of empirical wage equations. In the discussion of our results, we focus on the human capital effects of the transition process and the impacts of the industrial structure on wages.
JEL: 
J31
J24
P51
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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