, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …

household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …

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 …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …

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 …