negotiated at the branch level. In these firms, the average wage gap was about 10 per cent. The number of such firms and the size … of the wage gap have been falling in recent years. One important explanation for firms paying higher wages can be found … in the German system of relatively centralized wage negotiations with its limited possibilities of differentiation. Other …

workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony … power should not be neglected when analysing wage cyclicality. …

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … the wage cushion mainly varies with the profit situation of the plant and with indicators of labour shortage and the … business cycle. While plants bound by multi-employer sectoral agreements seem to pay wage premiums in order to overcome the …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … founded establishments are 8 percent lower than in similar incumbent firms. This negative wage differential is substantially … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a … incumbent firms. Both the excess labour fluctuation and the wage differential are shown to decline and become insignificant over …