"This paper deals with company expectations for 1997 with regard to employment. For this, details from the IAB establishment panel are examined separately for East (1st wave) and West (4th wave) with the aid of descriptive and multivariate methods. It can be seen that companies of individual...

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union differential based on separate samples of collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the...

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...

"Eine international vergleichende Untersuchung der Beziehung der Offenen-Stellen-Quote und der Arbeitslosenquote, der sogenannten Beveridge-Kurve, einerseits und der Ausgaben für Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik andererseits haben Jackman, Pissarides und Savouri (1990) auf der Basis...

"Theoretically greater wage flexibility, i.e. larger wage dispersion according to industry, regions, occupational groups and qualifications, fosters employment growth. At the same time the number of vacancies can be decreased and the number of unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed, can...