values of commodity baskets and a mason�s daily wage: 1331-1570 (no. of days� wages to buy one cloth); (8) Prices of … composite price index; and the no. of days� wages for a master mason to buy one Mechelen broadcloth, 1351-1520; (11) Prices of … mason's daily wages; (12) Purchase prices of Ghent woollens: by rank order of values, 1360-69: in pounds groot Flemish …

We study the behavior of output, employment, consumption, and investment in Germany during the Great Depression of 1928 …-37. In this time period, real wages were countercyclical, and productivity and fiscal policy were procyclical. We use the … neoclassical growth model to investigate how much these factors contribute to the Depression. We find that real wages, which were …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils … dampen the adjustment of wages to the regional unemployment situation. In the other regimes of plants that either do not make …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

ILO pub. Article on comparison of causes and economic policy implications concerning unemployment in Germany, Federal …, considers effects of wages and social security benefits on labour mobility, analyses structural unemployment and frictional …

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …

The paper seeks to provide some insights into the trends and patterns of female employment in Germany and their … underlying institutional framework. It is argued that the main challenge facing female employment in Germany is often the low …