The study develops two new real wages series for Germany c. 1500-1850 and analyzes their relationship with population …

class improved significantly due to rising real wages and greater social security. We therefore observe a structural break …

This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …

This paper assesses the potential of "workplace training" with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational … broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the effectiveness of apprenticeship using a large administrative dataset. We find … returns to apprenticeship for even the lowest ability school-leavers comparable to standard estimates of the return to school …