underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …

benefits was added to the sample. This version now contains exact daily flow information on the employment history of 559 …,540 persons as recorded by the social insurance system and on periods of drawing benefits as well. It allows to reproduce …

short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …

wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …

wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …-displacement wages. …

restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …' hourly wages by 2.8% and increases the wage gap to similar host-country citizens in similar jobs by 2.2%. Furthermore, we …

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and …