stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

, but they are relatively small. The personal characteristics of workers seem to exert a substantial effect on employment …

: the IAB employment sample (IABS) for Germany, and a combination of social security data from the Austrian Social Insurance … integration of jobless people into employment? There is evidence for a 'low-wage trap' and for a high risk of low-wage earners to … to this debate analysing employment spells of male low-wage earners who had been unemployed before, with methods of …

bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …

We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany … downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …Unter Verwendung von administrativen Daten für Deutschland dokumentieren wir die Ursachen hinter den Kosten des …

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain … separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences …. The second strain explains the employment structure on the basis of establishment data, but cannot properly calculate …