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

wages and rising wage dispersion over time …

The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework …

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …

effects of the use of networks on wages. Users of networks tend to be older, to have migrated longer ago and to be less … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower … wages …

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

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel … height effects on wages are curvilinear. During the considered period from 1985 to 2004 we observe a slightly nonlinear … falling trend. After controlling for time effects a nonlinear relationship between individual height and wages remains with a …