| Publisher | National Bureau of Economic Research | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 250.2KB PDF | Date added | 01 Mar 2000 |
| Topics | Human Capital Management | ||
| Downloads | 151 | ||
Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job creation. It is found that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a more compressed wage distribution than the US. The fact that jobless Germans have nearly the same skills as employed Germans and look more like average Americans than like low skilled Americans runs counter to the wage compression hypothesis. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how reductions in pay might affect jobless Germans.
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