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 …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …