A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions …

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to …. This study examines relationships between establishment training programs, wages, and retirement among older men and women …. Using unique matched establishment-employee data from Germany, the authors find that when establishments offer special …

paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …

wages for over five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies, the authors estimate national and industry … wages and the demand for skills"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

1990-91. This paper exploits these trade reforms to investigate the relationship between protection and wages. The focus of … the analysis is on relative wages, defined as industry wage premiums relative to the economy-wide average wage. Using the … between protection and wages; workers in protected sectors earn less than workers with similar observable characteristics in …

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between how long an employer has been in business (firm age) and wages … have been in business longer pay higher wages (as previous studies have found), but pay if anything lower wages after … controlling for worker characteristics. There is some evidence that the relationship is not monotonic, with wages falling and then …

. They also earn relatively low wages in their first few months of work: typically within $1 of the minimum wage. Despite …