The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light … behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for different …

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues …This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues …

-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …

principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …

conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which affects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self … the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among …

Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal … minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on … effects are sensitive to measurement errors in wages, the representativeness of the sample with respect to several types of …

2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. …