Der Beitrag untersucht bezogen auf Europa (EU-15), ob Leiharbeiter – im Vergleich zu Beschäftigten im Normalarbeitsverhältnis –ungünstigere Arbeits- und Entlohnungsbedingungen haben und ob diese Unterschiede auf die Leiharbeit „an sich“ oder aufMerkmalewie...

Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do nothire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants areexplored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective,such adjustments might lead to adverse incentive...

This paper examines employer-to-employer mobility by describing theindividual wage trajectories along the working career. The model, whichis designed to introduce optimal between-firm mobility, is based on thesearch, the matching, and the human capital theory. It is emphasizedthat hopping from...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we study whether being individually affected by downward wage rigidity has an effect on layoffs, quits and intra-firm mobility. Within a structural empirical model we estimate the individual extent of wage rigidity. This is expressed by the...

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Personal linkage between the biggest German corporations is subject to a special survey bythe monopoly-commission every two years. For the latest reporting year 2004 linkage-data isused to examine the impact of personal linkage on the compensation of management boardmembers. The assumed positive...

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We test Krugman’s (1991) notion of risk sharing in pooled labormarkets as one of the micro-foundations of agglomerationeconomies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks fromidiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor pooling.Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover...

In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroadsof labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) andabout the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of eachof these two...

Considering Cournot competition, this note shows that, if the firms differ inlabor productivities, the equilibrium wage rates under a centralized labor union are notindependent of the number of firms and product differentiation if the labor unioncharges a uniform wage rate. However, if the...