rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

productivity and a risky technology with productivity subject to sizeable shocks. Strict EPL makes the risky technology relatively … less attractive because it is more costly to shed workers upon receiving a low productivity draw. We calibrate the model … mechanism can explain a considerable portion of the slowdown in productivity in the EU relative to the US since 1995. …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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 …

headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …

Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …

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 …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

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 …

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