wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …

This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who … point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men.For both sexes, over …

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional … consequential choices of startups. We argue that middle management is positively related to introducing product innovations because … sample of German high-tech startups, we find support for our conjectures. …

employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …

market reforms implemented in Germany between 2003 and 2005. I exploit regional variation in the intensity German counties …