apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data …

It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of … orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for …

information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to … Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …