expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The difference in biases in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

, empirical evidence mostly suggests that immigrants to Germany experience persistent earnings disadvantages and, if at all, only … processes of immigrants to Germany. In line with this literature, no evidence for a robust assimilation process for immigrants … Aufenthaltsdauer im Gastland verschwindet, deutet die Evidenz für Deutschland hauptsächlich auf persistente Lohnnachteile für …

. This suggests that firms and workers bargain frequently over wages, even in the absence of an outside job offer. Moreover … Foxconn's publicly announced wages. Investigating whether individuals act on their updated beliefs, I find evidence that …

' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using … missing cohort increases training wages measured at the start of training. Further analyses shed light on the opposite case of … dual cohorts, which we find to increase training provision and to decrease training wages. The evidence also shows that …

service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the "White Cohort … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military …

Business Tax Reform of the year 2000 (GBTR 2000) as a natural experiment. Its effect on wages in the manufacturing sector is … oder andere Formen der Gewinnbesteuerung de jure im Unternehmen entstehende Steuerlast de facto auf den Faktor Lohn …

Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational … Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …

deviation of wages. Following the procedure proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable … einzelner Berufe. Auf Basis des deutschen Mikrozensus und des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels Deutschland wird gezeigt, inwieweit …

Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The … applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees … who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of training participants …