Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage …

wages that incentivise sick workers to attend work. Using a large representative German data set, we test several hypotheses …

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer–employee data set for Germany, we … natives. Under monopsonistic wage setting the estimated elasticity differential predicts a 4.7 log points wage penalty for …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …

. Second, the larger a firm's scale elasticity, the higher its incentive to choose centralized rather than decentralized wage … setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …