can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a … survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for explanations based on collective wage agreements and on efficency wages … quits are important reasons for wage rigidities for high skilled labour. Compared to findings from the USA, in Germany …

can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a … survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for explanations based on collective wage agreements and on efficency wages … quits are important reasons for wage rigidities for high skilled labour. Compared to findings from the USA, in Germany …

, dass die geringen Differenzierungsmöglichkeiten des deutschen Systems relativ zentralisierter Tarifverhandlungen einen … one-fifth of eastern German firms in the private sector paid wages that were higher than the collective contract wages … of the wage gap have been falling in recent years. One important explanation for firms paying higher wages can be found …