development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …

The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from …

prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors de …This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions in-duced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the … between the factors that have an impact on employment increases and employment decreases. The data stem from a telephone …

can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a … survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for explanations based on collective wage agreements and on efficency wages …

exhibits some disadvantages. We compare the employment effects of industry-level and firm-level wage bargaining in a … results with respect to the employment consequences of different wage bargaining regimes. As a consequence, we argue that …