firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour …

plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities …

standardised methodology to firm-level data for three developed (Germany, Portugal, UK) and two emerging economies (Brazil …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a …

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of …