increases that ripple up to about the 0.6th quantile. However, the MW also led to declining real wages (stagnating nominal wages …

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …

reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a … proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more flexible wages are associated with less job reallocation due to demand shocks … hypothesis that more flexible wages should help employers in dissolving bad matches, this relationship is found to be most …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …