wages in start-ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the direction of wage differentials between spin-offs and non … to other high-tech start-ups. However, neither a comprehensive theoretical assessment nor the empirical literature on …. Using a unique linked employer-employee data set of German high-tech start-ups, we estimate Mincer-type wage regressions …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …

Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few … statistics. We find that the employment adjustment cycle coincides only to a certain degree with the macroeconomic cycle … internal employment adjustments. Cyclical effects are ambiguous. The next step, the determination of external adjustments with …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …

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

reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a … proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more flexible wages are associated with less job reallocation due to demand shocks … hypothesis that more flexible wages should help employers in dissolving bad matches, this relationship is found to be most …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …