performance elasticities are contrary to predictions of agency theory. Both results provide further support to the common belief …

The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are … compensated by better promotion prospects. Sicherman (1991) was able to confirm this theory in an empirical study. However, the …

-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of … same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …

jobs in rough times separate analyses are carried out those who have entered the job directly from unemployment or non …

, Nash-bargained wages, payroll taxation, and differential support for unemployed labor in search and leisure are central …

In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM … parameter restrictions. A cointegration analysis for the unified Germany reveals a long rum relationship between real wages …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural …

, Nash{bargained wages, payroll taxation, and differential support for unemployed labor in search and leisure are central …