relative public/private and union/nonunion wages. Observations are provided on the current debates regarding public/private pay …

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …. Even though minimum wages will lead to increased public revenues from income taxes and social security benefits, they will …

workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … – which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages – circumvents the reflection problem and … accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average, we find only small peer effects in wages …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers wages …

economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker …

relative wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I identify …