This paper uses micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to document that the wage structure in West Germany was remarkably stable over the period 1984-97, with little variation over time in wage or earnings inequality among and within different skill groups. The paper investigates a number of possible explanations for the stability of the wage structure and concludes that it is attributable ...
Washington, Research Department, IMF:
2000,
(IMF Working Paper WP/00/22)
| Eswar S. Prasad