-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 …

(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 …

representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find … between the family/non-family gaps in wages and job security. …

representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find … between the family/non-family gaps in wages and job security. …

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …

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. …

associated with higher job mobility. At firm level, there seems to be a trade-off between wages and job stability: High …-wage firms tend to be low-tenure firms, which suggests that low job stability may be compensated by higher wages. High …

analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and … incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …