It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …

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 …

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages … find a negative effect of corporate taxation on wages: a 1 euro increase in tax liabilities yields a 77 cent decrease in …

welfare gains when domestic firms increasingly offshore production to foreign countries. -- Trade ; offshoring ; wages ; labor …

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 …

Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training … correlation between continuing vocational training and wages are examined. Results are compared in order to analyse in how far …

employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …