Migration and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Germany

Migration and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Germany
Author: John Haisken-De New
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3642801420

Although the issue of migration has received substantial attention in public debate in most countries of the West, only moderately satisfactory attention has been given in the economic literature. This book analyses the case of Germany from an economic point of view. It examines questions such as: Are there substantial negative side-effects of migration, faced by native workers, as sometimes publicly claimed? Do highly skilled and unskilled natives experience different effects? Do certain foreigner national groups affect natives differently? How important is the level of education of these incoming foreigners in determining wage impacts on natives? Do native workers in some industries profit from migration, while others suffer? How is the industrial wage structure affected by migration, if at all?

Updated Notes on the Interindustry Wage Structure

Updated Notes on the Interindustry Wage Structure
Author: Steven G. Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1994
Genre: Manufactures
ISBN:

This paper documents and analyzes changes in the wage structure across manufacturing industries over the last one hundred years. Inter-industry differentials in wages are highly stable for production workers, but autocorrelation patterns for nonproduction workers are considerably weaker. Industry wage patterns are very similar for production and nonproduction workers today, but this has been true only since 1958. Dispersion of wages across industries has shown varying trends over the last one hundred years, but has never in this century been higher than it is today. The variables that are most strongly correlated with wage growth are productivity growth, rising union density, rising capital intensity, and profit growth.