The imputation of wages above the contribution limit with the German IAB employment sample

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Inter-industry labor flows (2017, background): “Because upper limits to social security contributions result in rightcensored wage information, we impute wages whenever they exceed the contribution limits following Gartner (2005).”
Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data (2009, methodology): “We account for censoring by multiply imputing their values (compare Gartner, 2005).”
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany (2018, unknown): “Last, we use a survey question of the LIAB asking “whether local taxation was important for the initial location decision of the firm”.”
Exporters and the rise in wage inequality: Evidence from German linked employer–employee data (2013, unknown): “The imputation procedure works in the following way (cf. Gartner, 2005).”
Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data (2009, unknown): “As described in Gartner (2005), rightcensored observations are replaced by wages randomly drawn from a truncated normal distribution whose moments are constructed by the predicted values from the Tobit regressions and whose (lower) truncation point is given by the contribution limit to the social…”