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 …

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 …

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

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

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …

Using a large-scale linked-employer-employee data set from western Germany, this paper presents new evidence on the … differences in wages between workers in covered and uncovered firms arise from the non-random selection of workers and firms into …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …. -- Locus of control ; wages ; latent factor model ; data set combination …

-employee data from Germany. My results indicate that an increasing proportion of women in an establishment reduces wages for males … individual wages. For this purpose hypotheses are formulated as to what drives this impact: sex-specific preferences, lower … and females in both western and eastern Germany. Furthermore the empirical analysis shows that by successively including …