"It is well known that changes to another branch of industry or another job can be either voluntary, when workers seek better employment opportunities, or involuntary, when they take on another job after being made redundant. As the determinants and costs of these two types of mobility differ,...

"In this article the wage effects of occupational mobility in those who have completed a course of vocational training at a company are studied on the basis of the IAB employment sample. About 70% of this group remains in the company where they did their training, 30% move another company. There...

"The article examines the effects that the migration of foreign workers has on the wages of indigenous workers. Using a cross-sectional sample of the employment statistics for 1990, a translog production function is estimated in which foreign and indigenous workers are differentiated according...

"In this paper, the extent and consequences of nominal and negotiated wage rigidities are examined micro-economically and micro-econometrically. The analysis shows that wage rigidities are by no means rare in Germany. They lead to bloated wages and considerable wage increases and, at the limit,...

"We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching approach where mothers' wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm. Using an administrative German data set we investigate...

"Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...

"This paper reconsiders the West German wage curve using the employment statistics of the Federal Employment Services of Germany (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. This updates the earlier study by Baltagi and Blien (1998) by 15 years for a more disaggregated 326 regions of...

"Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment...

This paper examines the relationship between the net union density, as a measure of union power, and the wage structure within and between segments of the German labour market in the period 1985-1997 on the basis of the IAB employment sample. Individual probabilities of trade union membership...

We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching approach where mothers' wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm. Using an administrative German data set we investigate...