group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

The rapid wage increases observed in Eastern Germany over the past two years have important implications for the …

workers’ productivity and firm performance. Besides giving more advancement incentives, bigger wage differentials might also … give rise to less cooperation and more politics between workers resulting in worse outcomes. We try to answer these …

firms, when firing workers, must include as one of their criteria the number of dependent children of their employees. Our … dataset confirms that workers with a relatively large number of dependent children at the entry in the firm are, ceteris … paribus, less likely to be laid-off and have on average higher job tenure than their co-workers with a relatively small number …

employment laws tend to have larger informal sectors and higher unemployment, especially among young workers. A number of …

constraints may raise the wellbeing of workers if everything remains constant, but may fail to do so once other economic channels … workers), notably worker monitoring, working environment, and ultimately what we could term harassment. We show that during … downturns, harassing workers in order to induce a quit is a substitute for greater dismissal freedom, and that intense …

. This Foundation acted like an independent training centre, where displaced workers would spend relatively long training … a collectively-bargained special tax on the remaining workers in the Steel Firms. Moreover the trainees themselves would … I use days worked and wage growth. As a control group I take all other displaced workers from the firms who formed the …

flexibility, such as Germany. These results are consistent with high employee satisfaction being a valuable tool for recruitment …