This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, fulltime employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

comprehensive theoretical assessment nor the empirical literature on wages in start-ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the … spin-offs that commercialise new scientific results or methods provide higher wages to employees with linkages to the …

returns with regard to obtaining a job suited to their skill level and with high wages. Our data set combines information on …

. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …