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 …

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 …

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 …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … 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 …

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners … increase in their prices and in German wages. This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …