This paper explores the sources of bargaining power in wage negotiations, and examines how productivity and training affect wages. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining, the negotiating partners are specified a priori, and thus it is impossible to address the question of how they achieve...

Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific skill requirements, the added costs of training inherent in hiring new workers, and the absolute demand for labour may stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of...

This dissertation consists of two essays concerning the determination of wages across areas. The first essay investigates the equilibrium relationship between wages and prices across labor markets. Of central interest is the extent to which workers receive higher wages to compensate for...

- Darstellung derjenigen Kenntnisse, Fertigkeiten und Fähigkeiten über die ein kommunaler Pressereferent verfügen sollte.- Wege, die die praktische Umsetzung des Anforderungsprofils ermöglichen könnten.

This work contains three papers employing common factor methodologies to economic forecasting for Estonia. The methods employed are State-space modelling with Kalman filtering, static principal components and dynamic principal components. The last paper also investigates Inflation dynamics and...