Germany. We show evidence that job mobility is higher in the UK than in Germany, and that job movers may be negatively … selected in Germany, but not in the UK. Our findings suggest that returns to experience are substantially higher in the UK … in the UK and 30 percent in Germany. Separate estimates for different qualification groups show that in Germany, it is …

impact on the individuals' wages one year after graduation. However, there appears to be a partial catchup towards luckier …

wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …

We show that occupation mobility creates the illusion of cyclical hiring wages. Using administrative data, we find that … wages of new hires who remain in the same occupation are no more cyclical than those of existing workers, whereas wages of … results suggest that the widely documented cyclicality of entry wages reflects composition effects due to changes in match …