, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we …

three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

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

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …