Germany and asks the personnel managers about their expectations concerning employment adjustments. We find that employment … larger the expected reduction in employment. Employment adjustments are more pronounced in those industries and plants which … works council. In contrast, employment is not found to increase if the minimum wage is reduced by about 10 percent. This …

immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in … monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family …

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and … introducing or abandoning collective agreements or works councils affects the gender pay gap. This result holds at the mean and … along the distribution, challenging the stylized fact that unions and works councils dampen the gender pay gap …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …

gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …

suggest that employment growth is dampened by firms avoiding to exceed thresholds. In order to minimize these transaction …

reduce wages by 0.5 percentand employment by 1.6 percent, reflecting monopsonistic exploitation. In line with per …-fect competition, sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightlyconcentrated labor markets. This effect weakens …, theresults lend empirical support to the monopsony argument, implying that conventionalminimum wage effects on employment conceal …

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, thispaper tests the “jack … selfemployedand those ending up in paid employment.... …

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack … become self-employed and those ending up in paid employment …