- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

heterogeneity in management practices across establishments in Germany, with small firms having lower scores than large firms on … average management score is lower in Germany than in the US. Overall, our results point towards lower management quality being …Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate …

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … longitudinal matched employer-employee data set from Austria. Our results show that firms with strong preferences for …

within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …