We investigate the effects of works councils on employees’ wages and job satisfaction ingeneral and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introductionof a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … - the last labor force survey available - indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …

In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of nativeworkers. Existing studies have … developed countries has a significantly negative effect onthe wages of native workers at the workplace - also when controlling …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time …

This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community …