Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31881 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IAB-Discussion Paper No. 18/2005
Publisher: 
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the labour mobility during this period using the linked employer-employee dataset from the Institute for Employment Research for the years 1993, 1995 and 2000. The dataset allows us to investigate especially the wage structure within firms and the exit and entry rates of workers at firm level. The main finding is that both wage inequality within and between firms and workers mobility was rising during the 90's. This development is mainly driven by the dynamics of high wage workers and high wage firms. The rising variance of wages can only partly be explained by a change in the occupational composition of firms. A decomposition of the variance of wages shows that the importance of the firm-specific variation increases, whereas that of human capital variation decreases.
Subjects: 
Lohnstruktur
Lohnentwicklung
Arbeitskräftemobilität
IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz
Arbeitsplatzwechsel
Lohnunterschied
Lohndifferenzierung
privater Sektor
Privatwirtschaft
Westdeutschland
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
JEL: 
J31
J41
J62
M51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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