We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify …

college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we …

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …

associated with higher job mobility. At firm level, there seems to be a trade-off between wages and job stability: High …-wage firms tend to be low-tenure firms, which suggests that low job stability may be compensated by higher wages. High …

insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are …