This paper decomposes wage bill changes at the firm level into components due to wage changes, and components due to net flows of employment. The analysis relies on an administrative employer-employee dataset of individual annual earnings matched with firms' annual accounts for Belgium over the...

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....

This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes firms more productive. On-the-job training...

In recent years, Europe has witnessed an accelerated process of economic integration. Trade barriers were removed, the euro was introduced and ten new member states have joined the European Union. This paper analyzes how this process of increased economic integration has affected labor and...

In the current career reality people not only make traditional career transitions such as entry into and exit from the labor market or upward in-company mobility, but also horizontal movements and transitions between employment and different social spheres such as household, care and leisure...

Schnelles Wirtschaftswachstum (1989+4%; 1990 und 1991 ca. 3%), die konsolidierungs- und stabilisierungsorientierte Wirtschaftspolitik wird fortgesetzt. Intensive Vorbereitungen auf den EG-Binnenmarkt, steigende Industrieproduktion (1989 ohne Bau + 3,6%), leichter Preisanstieg (+ 3,1%), weniger...

Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt, das 1991 nur um 1,3% gewachsen war, wird sich in diesem Jahr um etwa 1,5%, bestenfalls um 2% erhöhen. Die Konjunkturbelebung wird recht verhalten sein, so daß das Wirtschaftswachstum auch 1993 nur etwa 2,5% erreichen dürfte. Die Beschäftigung wird im Laufe des...

1998 hat sich das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt um ca. 3% erhöht. Nach dem kräftigen Wachstumsschub im ersten Quartal hat die Expansion allmählich an Schwung verloren. Obwohl die Wirtschaftspolitik 1999 stützend wirkt, verlangsamt sich die konjunkturelle Gangart zunächst weiter. Das reale BIP...