We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments’ real wage cyclicality over the business … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …

labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …

We analyse the implications of habit formation relating to wages in a multi-period efficiency-wage model. If employees …. Greater intensity does not necessarily have the same consequences, because wage adjustments counteract the initial level … impact. The firm's response additionally depends on the wage-dependency of dismissal costs since such costs make an …

ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage gap. Of these the most …

In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high … affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost … of outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low …

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage …

piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We … randomize workers into treatments where we control relative pay and chances to receive a low or a high wage. Chances can be fair …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low-wage …

, search for employers, and residual wage shocks to account for these life cycle wage dynamics. We highlight the importance of … largest part of life cycle wage dynamics. It accounts for 50% of average wage growth, 50% of rising differences between gender …

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …