yield a negative wage premium 13 years after it has been made official state language. While we do neither find evidence for …

incentives. The present article shows that in this case, a minimum wage increases implemented effort, i.e., realized service … quality, as well as the efficiency of an employment relationship. Hence, this paper can explain why productivity and service … quality went up after the introduction of the British National Minimum Wage, and that this might actually have caused a more …

Enlargement leads to surprising small job losses of less than 0.5 percent of total employment in Germany and of 1.5 percent in …

in employment. However, in these models human capital formation is usually taken as given. This paper internalises the … the reaction of the trade union to tax rate changes are crucial for the employment and welfare effects. …

In this paper an alternative view of the relation between the wage level, wage dispersion, training incentives and … employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment …

of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is … accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between educational groups). A second seemingly paradox development, which … resulting educational expansion firstly goes along with a composition effect which leads to wage dispersion. Secondly the …