and often concentrates on the USA. We present both an aggregate and detailed decomposition of changes in wages allowing us …

and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

transition process in the first decade after reunification …

transition process in the first decade after reunification …

employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours … increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop corresponding to an aggregate employment effect of 3 to 4 per cent. The effect was … driven by an increase in part-time employment while full-time employment was not affected. The statistical significance of …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …