continuing vocational training (CVT) on employment, the risk of unemployment, and wages. To control for education, profession and … reemployed and higher chances to stay into an existing employment. The results also indicate that repeated short activities in … CVT are more beneficial then long activities typically carried out by the German employment agency during the period of …

In recent publications it has been argued that the change of the skill structure of industrial employment is caused by … impact on the skill structure of domestic employment in favor of skilled labor. The empirical evidence for German …

effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to …

Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the … implications of how the sticky wages enter into the hiring decision, and there seems to be a tradeoff between generating business …

The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid … observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled workers. The direct effect of increased import competition on relative … employment seems to be small, except for the case of consumer electronics. Apparently, adjustment strategies induced by …

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare …. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the … ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of low-skilled work relative to skilled work, low-wage subsidies …

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 …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …