the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production … agreements significantly influence firms' employment policies. Enrolments and the employment of free-lance collaborators are …

the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical … matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However …, exit rates fall below those of comparable spells spent entirely in permanent employment after a few years time. This …