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Wage Mobility in East and West GermanyRegina T. RiphahnUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Department of Economics; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Daniel Schnitzleinaffiliation not provided to SSRN IZA Discussion Paper No. 6246 Abstract: This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered influence function) regression based decompositions to measure the role of potential explanatory factors behind these mobility changes. Increasing job stability is an important factor associated with the East German mobility decline.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 67 Keywords: wage mobility, earnings mobility, income mobility, Germany, East Germany, inequality, transition matrix, Shorrocks index, administrative data JEL Classification: J30, J31, J60, D63 working papers seriesDate posted: January 8, 2012Suggested CitationContact Information
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