Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being the difference specially relevant among women. These two countries present important differences in their labor market conditions in terms of labor market flexibility,...

Basierend auf deutschen und dänischen Datenquellen wird die Entwicklung und Struktur der grenzüberschreitenden Pendlerverflechtungen im deutsch-dänischen Grenzgebiet untersucht. Die Ergebnisse werden im Kontext der Arbeitsmarktdisparitäten, der Lohnentwicklung und der institutionellen...

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...