Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in East and … West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located in East Germany … of earnings. We find large selection effects both in terms of worker and firm unobserved components of wages. The …

-employee dataset from the Institute for Employment Research for the years 1993, 1995 and 2000. The dataset allows us to investigate … by the dynamics of high wage workers and high wage firms. The rising variance of wages can only partly be explained by a … change in the occupational composition of firms. A decomposition of the variance of wages shows that the importance of the …

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data … from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data … from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

-employee dataset from the Institute for Employment Research for the years 1993, 1995 and 2000. The dataset allows us to investigate … by the dynamics of high wage workers and high wage firms. The rising variance of wages can only partly be explained by a … change in the occupational composition of firms. A decomposition of the variance of wages shows that the importance of the …

-employee dataset from the Institute for Employment Research for the years 1993, 1995 and 2000. The dataset allows us to investigate … by the dynamics of high wage workers and high wage firms. The rising variance of wages can only partly be explained by a … change in the occupational composition of firms. A decomposition of the variance of wages shows that the importance of the …