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AKM Effects for German Labour Market Data from 1985 to 2021

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  • Lochner Benjamin

    (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Germany)

  • Wolter Stefanie

    (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Germany)

  • Seth Stefan

    (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Germany)

Abstract

This article describes the processing and accessibility of the person and establishment fixed wage effects in German administrative data. These effects have been estimated following the approach of Abowd, J., Kramarz, F., and Margolis, D. (1999. High wage workers and high wage firms. Econometrica 67: 251–333) and Card, D., Heining, J., and Kline, P. (2013. Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality. Q. J. Econ. 128: 967–1015). They can be linked to most of the available administrative datasets provided by the Research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). They are available for different time intervals from 1985 until 2021. These effects have been used in numerous articles that deal with the contributions of workers and establishments to earnings inequality.

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  • Lochner Benjamin & Wolter Stefanie & Seth Stefan, 2024. "AKM Effects for German Labour Market Data from 1985 to 2021," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 244(4), pages 425-431.
    • Handle: RePEc:jns:jbstat:v:244:y:2024:i:4:p:425-431:n:1001
    DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2023-0018
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    JEL classification:

    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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