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The wage curve : an entry written for the new palgrave, 2nd edition

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper summarizes evidence for the existence of a wage curve a downward-sloping relationship between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations. Its elasticity is approximately -0.1. -- wage...

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Recession and deflation?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters for wage growth are the non-employment rate and the...

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Do newly founded firms pay lower wages? First evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2004

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …Unter Verwendung eines kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten- Datensatzes für Deutschland analysiert dieser Beitrag die …

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Establishment age and wages: evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes präsentieren wir erste empirische Ergebnisse für Deutschland zu diesem Zusammenhang. Wir stellen fest, dass innerhalb …

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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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Management compensation and the economic crisis : longitudinal evidence from the German chemical sector

Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2013

Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards. Carrying out longitudinal analyses, we find that, on...

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Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2016

We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the...

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Job preferences as revealed by employee initiated job changes

Grund, Christian - 2011

as sex and age are explored. Those between East- and West-Germany diminish over time. -- job characteristics ; job …

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The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction : empirical evidence and theoretical implications

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...

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Works councils, wages, and job satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Schmitt, Andreas - 2011

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with respect to sex and occupational status. Making use of a German representative sample of employees, we find that employees, who move to a firm with a works council, report...

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