wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …

notice increases wages by three percent, ceteris paribus. -- Employment protection ; term of notice ; wages … of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their upcoming dismissal. The wages … paid during this period are an important element of firing costs and hence employment protection. To find a causal effect …

Using a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates … works council. In contrast, the net employment growth rate over the pandemic and the implementation of short-time work did …-determination did indeed make a difference in terms of higher employment stability for the incumbent workforce during the pandemic. …

significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …This paper explores whether wage, employment and tenure outcomes of workers taking up a job subsidized by the German … Federal Employment Agency differ by industry. The analysis utilizes administrative data and statistical matching techniques …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative … family gap. -- wages ; parental leave ; human capital ; return to work ; non-random selection …

participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long … mini-job as secondary employment. This has provided an easy way to top-up labour income staggering under the pressure of …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

cohorts, with most of this being attributed to the way that high school employment is related to subsequent adult work …

temporary severing of employment relationships followed by a phase of more standard labour market search and matching, we use … stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …