Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a … labour turnover rates, ceteris paribus. Moreover, bargaining coverage rates and wages in new firms are lower than in similar …Unter Verwendung eines kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten- Datensatzes für Deutschland analysiert dieser Beitrag die …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in … trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia … von kombinierten Firmen- Beschäftigten-Daten aus Deutschland um zu zeigen, dass diese Lohnzuschläge verschwinden, wenn die …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in … newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … collective bargaining agreement at firm level. The point estimates for this group of plants are close to the -0.1 elasticity of … wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … collective bargaining agreement at firm level. The point estimates for this group of plants are close to the -0.1 elasticity of … wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

one-fifth of eastern German firms in the private sector paid wages that were higher than the collective contract wages … of the wage gap have been falling in recent years. One important explanation for firms paying higher wages can be found … western Germany) the size of an establishment. …

We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in East and … West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located in East Germany … of earnings. We find large selection effects both in terms of worker and firm unobserved components of wages. The …