HRRI Working Paper 01-03
Industrial Relations Center
University of Minnesota
The Role of Comparative Advantage and
Learning in Wage Dynamics and Intra-firm
Mobility: Evidence from Germany
Stephanie Lluis 1
University of Minnesota2
September 2002
1 I thank Thomas Lemieux and Claude Montmarquette for their enduring support through this
project. I am also grateful to Nicole Fortin, Robert Gibbons, Jennifer Hunt, and Daniel Parent for
valuable comments. Special thanks to Lars Vilhuber for his help in accessing the GSOEP data. Financial
and logistic support by CRDE and CIRANO is gratefully acknowledged.
2Industrial Relations Center, 321 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Tel: (612)
624-4171, email: [email protected], Fax: (612)-624-8360.