Die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Steuersenkungen und Änderungen der Steuerprogressionwerden in Modellen mit Lohnverhandlungen und Effizienzlöhnen untersucht.Es zeigt sich, daß die betrachteten Standardmodelle die positiven Effekteeiner steileren Steuerprogression überzeichnen;...

Auf die Wirtschaftskrise reagieren viele Betriebe mit Personalabbau,Kurzarbeit und Abstrichen bei Lohn und Gehalt. Zwischen den Branchenund Beschäftigtengruppen bestehen aber deutliche Unterschiede.Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Online-Erhebung des ProjektsLohnSpiegel, die vom Tarifarchiv des...

We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee inOECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employmentpositively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, theunemployment rate and the degree of...

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...

This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the HouseholdLabor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008.When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is evidence infavor of the wage curve only for younger and female...

In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effectsof benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany...

Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using theefficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urbaneconomy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow forbehavioral substitution between leisure time...