Der Staat überwälzt administrative Leistungen vom öffentlichen auf den privaten Sektor. Im Personal- und Sozialbereich, Steuer- und Abgabenbereich, im Betriebsbereich sowie durch Statistiken und Meldungen entstehen dem privaten Sektor administrative Kosten. Die Kostenanalyse steht im...

This paper characterises establishments that pay higher seniority wages than their competitors. It tests whether seniority wages are paid on the basis of agency, human capital or efficiency wage considerations. A representative linked employeremployee panel and an innovative two-step estimation...

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB data set). We find that both types of heterogeneity are correlated to the observed characteristics...