wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The difference in biases in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects … apprenticeship system which is merged with the employment biographies of more than 8,000 apprenticeship graduates for the 1999 …-term wage effects of TWA employment. Our results point to a rather pronounced wage gap and persistent adverse wage effects. But …

labor, wages were increasing disproportionately both for low- and highskilled labor whereas employment trends were favoring …The recent economic policy debate in Germany emphasizes the impact of globalization of the world economy on the German … Germany for the period from 1970 until German reunification in 1990. Building on the emphasis of trade theory on relative …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …