In Germany, targeted wage subsidies to employers are an important instrument of active labor market policy. This paper compares the wages of individuals taking up a subsidized job with those of otherwise similar individuals who found an unsubsidized job, combining propensity score matching with...

The objective of this paper is to present a short survey of our new research results to mobility and stability of employment on a micro level. This area of conflict is analyzed from an individual and a firm's perspective, taking institutional issues into account. More than previous studies, we...

The authors use German linked employer-employee data for the years 1990, 1995 and 2001 to analyze, which dimensions of wage setting differ across three wage-setting regimes: Establishments applying sectoral collective contracts, establishments with firm-level contracts and uncovered...

The paper analyses the relationship between individual tenure and the application of collective contracts at the firm level, using a multi-level model and a German linked employer-employee data set for the years 1990, 1995 and 2001. The main result is that elapsed tenure is longer in firms...

"In Germany, targeted wage subsidies to employers are an important instrument of active labor market policy. This paper compares the wages of individuals taking up a subsidized job with those of otherwise similar individuals who found an unsubsidized job, combining propensity score matching with...

"The objective of this paper is to present a short survey of our new research results to mobility and stability of employment on a micro level. This area of conflict is analyzed from an individual and a firm's perspective, taking institutional issues into account. More than previous studies, we...

"Der Beitrag verfolgt das Ziel, Fehlzeiten in einen arbeitsökonomischen Kontext einzuordnen und ihre Determinanten zu bestimmen. Es zeigt sich, daß das Arbeitsangebotsmodell, die Humankapitaltheorie, die Theorie kompensierender Lohndifferentiale, auf unvollkommenen Informationen basierende...

"Der Beitrag verfolgt das Ziel, Fehlzeiten in einen arbeitsökonomischen Kontext einzuordnen und ihre Determinanten zu bestimmen. Es zeigt sich, daß das Arbeitsangebotsmodell, die Humankapitaltheorie, die Theorie kompensierender Lohndifferentiale, auf unvollkommenen Informationen basierende...

"In Germany, targeted wage subsidies to employers are an important instrument of active labor market policy. This paper utilizes process generated data of the German Public Employment Service to compare the wages of individuals taking up a subsidized job with those of otherwise similar...

"Theoretical and empirical research shows that an individual’s earned income is not only dependent on his/her individual productivity-relevant characteristics. The employer and his pay policy, too, have an independent influence on the pay level, which is reflected by the payment of company...