This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled … male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …

college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart … examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and …

employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings …

This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines … more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage …

This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in … that workers in markets with higher levels of skill shortages receive higher wages, although this effect is minimal. For …

insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are …

We examine the wage effects of perceived and objective job security in Germany and the UK, and find that job security … labor market in Germany characterized by temporary contracts and low pay, but only limited evidence of this division in the … UK. Changes in perceived job security are a factor in determining the change in wages …