, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …

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 …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …

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 …

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …

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 …

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 …