There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … factors when firms from the service sector are faced with demand shocks. The estimation results indicate that collective wage …

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … factors when firms from the service sector are faced with demand shocks. The estimation results indicate that collective wage …

deterioration in its labour market around the Great Recession with unemployment rising from 4.8 percent in 2007 to 15 percent in … 2012. This situation was also reversed somewhat quickly with unemployment falling to 8 percent by 2016. Such dramatic …

fall back into unemployment. We estimate bivariate proportional hazard models for unemployment duration and for the … occupations. While a higher level of education protects women in particular from unemployment, having children hampers women …'s employment and initial wages after unemployment. There are lower gender gaps in the public sector and in high technology- firms …