effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a …

capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …

also for medium-skilled and unskilled workers. -- Mobility ; job-to-job ; wages ; labour market entry ; initial conditions …

(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of … adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the … particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage …

Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous … work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent …

is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces … major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming … reduction in overtime will lead to less production and hence also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. The paper …

-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth rates of unskilled and medium-skilled workers via higher job … destruction and separation rates, whereas the employment patterns of skilled workers are not affected significantly. New …