The paper investigates the relative importance of trade and immigration for earnings and job mobility of male German … determinants receive, at least in Germany. While wages are affected negatively by a relative increase in imports, immigration … exhibits a positive effect. Trade seems to depress occupational mobility and internal movement, but stimulates inter …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

-economic background. We use this exogenous variation in the demand for education to estimate the effect of education on wages as well as …

estimate associations between work-related training and wages for private sector men in ten European Union countries. Our … results show that, for the majority of countries, there is a fairly uniform association between training and hourly wages … between training and wages. …

accumulated experience in the host country; and (iii) the mobility up the occupational ladder in the host country. We formulate a … arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8.13% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel, economy-wide rise in wages and repeated sampling account for 4.3, 3.1, 1.6, 1.2 and 2% each …

layer is very positively (negatively) correlated with value added. We then explore the changes in the wages and number of … expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that expand little … and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. …