Mit zunehmender Globalisierung und beschleunigtem technologischem Wandel kommt den sogenannten Humanressourcen eine immer größere Bedeutung für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Landes und seiner Unternehmen zu. Dabei hängt die Qualität der Humanressourcen einerseits von staatlichen...

Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper analyzes to which extent full-time employees who earned low wages (less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 were able to earn higher wages in the following years, and which factors...

The micro- and macroeconomic effects of the declining power of trade unions have been hotly debated by economists and policymakers. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence shows that the impact of the decline on economic aggregates and firm performance is not an overwhelming cause for concern....

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage bargaining and wage posting in the matching process from the employers' side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with more than one-third of...