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 …

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …

transparency rules and their effects on wages. We find that these rules induce firms to behave strategically with the aim of …

paper contains a formal analysis of transparency rules and their effects on wages. We find that these rules induce firms to …

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

effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …