Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

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 … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in … trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … collective bargaining agreement at firm level. The point estimates for this group of plants are close to the -0.1 elasticity of … wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils …

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly … concerning labour supply behaviour, labour productivity, wages, and bargaining coverage, and they still exhibit substantially …

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

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …