Empirical Work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...

We study the evolution of the wage differentials between graduate (skilled) and non graduate (unskilled) workers in several european countries in the period that range from the beginning of the nineties to the beginning of this century. The starting point is that all european countries show an...

In this paper we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals’ performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in sports as well as forgery and plagiarism scandals in academia have been partially explained by „competitive...

In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...

En este artículo analizamos si los salarios, por motivos estratégicos, se negocian de manera secuencial o simultánea cuando los trabajadores se organizan en sindicatos de empresa o en sindicatos de industria. El resultado obtenido, en ambos casos, depende de quién decide cuándo se negocia:...

This paper investigates the introduction of the reserve clause in Major League Baseball during the 1880s. Taking advantage of a unique data set describing the salaries for twenty nine high-quality players throughout the decade of the 1880s, we investigate the impact of the reserve clause as it...

En este artículo se lleva a cabo un estudio actualizado sobre la evolución de las diferencias salariales interindustriales en España. En comparación con otros trabajos previos sobre el tema, el presente incorpora ciertas innovaciones tanto en lo referente a los datos utilizados como con...