development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …

Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few … statistics. We find that the employment adjustment cycle coincides only to a certain degree with the macroeconomic cycle … internal employment adjustments. Cyclical effects are ambiguous. The next step, the determination of external adjustments with …

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

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …

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 …

between long and short employment spells within establishments. Using the Cox partial likelihood estimator, we then examine …

durations are matched to firms offering stable employment (and vice versa). An extension of the model to a competing …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …

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 …