underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …

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 …

The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that …

firm dynamics, including survival and growth. We tie our empirical findings to a simple model of pay, employment, and …

; Germany ; Establishment History Panel ; Qualification ; Wages ; Part-Time ; Marginal Employment … entrepreneurship research analyses the employment effects of start-ups vs. incumbent firms, our knowledge about differences in these …-qualified labour isthough highly significantnot as high as commonly expected. -- Start-ups ; Employment ; Quality of Employment …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential … effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead them to economic success. We employ recent data from the German …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … - determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms. …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … - determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms. …

connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer …-level wages and enjoy greater job security although these advantages disappear over time. …

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