dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved. …

labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …

Since monetary union with West Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage points … relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a …

A transformation of what had become a universal 40-hour standard working week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions … reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

administrative records for the universe of private sector employment in Austria where we define work-related networks formed by past … job-seeker's perspective we analyze how network characteristics affect job finding rates and wages in the new jobs. Then … connected to a closing firm via past coworker links. Our results indicate that employment status and the firm types of former …

justified the relative stability of educational wage premia. Relative wages did not, however, respond to negative net demand …