Wage growth and career patterns of German low-wage workers

Jens Stephani
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Jens Stephani: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 201201, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Using administrative linked employer-employee data from Germany, this paper analyses the real wage growth and career patterns of full-time employed low-wage workers between 2001 and 2006. Multivariate models accounting for sample selection demonstrate the relevance of individual characteristics and firm heterogeneity in this context. I observe substantial upward and downward wage mobility in the low-wage sector, with the worst-paid workers having considerably higher relative wage growth than better-paid workers. The majority of those lowwage workers who had escaped the low-wage sector by 2004 were still higher-paid two years later, indicating that their upward mobility is not just a transitory phenomenon." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Berufsverlauf; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Lohnentwicklung; Niedriglohn; Niedrigqualifizierte; Geringverdiener; Reallohn; 2001-2006 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2012
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