trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities. …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than … market policy and social benefits. It can be shown that the institutional framework currently in place in Germany is …

approach regarding the introduction of additional minimum wages in Germany and more generous in-work benefits combined with an …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …