Business Tax Reform of the year 2000 (GBTR 2000) as a natural experiment. Its effect on wages in the manufacturing sector is …

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …

military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and days of employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Consistent estimates of …

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to … and re-employment, estimation of a nonlinear regression model reveals additional aspects of cyclical sensitivity. In …

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …

, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover … bill if employment effects neglected by previous empirical studies are taken into account. Any increase in the total wage … bill by higher wage rates set is equally compensated for by lower levels of employment. If adjustments in employment due to …

Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty … microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household level …

educated. We analyse the returns to education in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom, countries which differ … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … UK, and the lowest for Sweden. A wage decrease due to time spent in unemployment results in a decline in the hourly wages …

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family … receive lower wages than native women in the same labor market segment, and that this is mainly associated with their …