incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals’ employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

business for a longer period of time tend to pay higher wages. Using a unique rich set of linked employer-employee data we … present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher … wages for workers with the same broadly defined degree of formal qualification. This firm age differential vanishes after …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in … trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time …While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

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 …

wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils … dampen the adjustment of wages to the regional unemployment situation. In the other regimes of plants that either do not make … the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical studies have not taken into account that …

gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …