(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in … labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It …

human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are …

wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits, it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved …

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify …

college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …