Among the most pressing issues across the social sciences is the desire to link the macro and the micro, the large scale that indicates trends and the small scale that highlights the individual strategies that combine to create developments. This gap is particularly notable in the analysis of...

This Paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel dataset to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

Based on a large employer-employee matched dataset, the Paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

A growing theoretical and empirical literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature suggests that these forms of organization should lead to higher inequality across firms, increased...

<DIV><DIV>  <DIV>The long-term impact of globalization, outsourcing, and technological change on workers is increasingly being studied by economists. At the nexus of labor economics, industry studies, and industrial organization, <I>The Analysis of Firms and Employees</I> presents new findings about these impacts...</i></div></div></div>

In their seminal study on inter-industry wage differentials, Krueger and Summers (1988) expressed estimated industry differences as deviations from a hypothetical employment-share weighted mean. Virtually the whole labor literature has followed their approach, yet most studies avoid calculating...