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

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer–employee data set for Germany, we …

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

major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification … after eight years of residency in Germany, while adults faced a 15-year residency requirement. Since 2000, all immigrants … performance. Based on the eligibility rules, we find few returns of citizenship for men, but substantial returns for women …

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

job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men. …

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 …