This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …

survey", a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …

This paper characterises establishments that pay higher seniority wages than their competitors. It tests whether … seniority wages are paid on the basis of agency, human capital or efficiency wage considerations. A representative linked … employeremployee panel and an innovative two-step estimation strategy are used to first calculate individual seniority wages taking …

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain … separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences …. The second strain explains the employment structure on the basis of establishment data, but cannot properly calculate …

Using linked employer–employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage …