Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in … individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity …

these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in … bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings … inequality in Germany and those in the United States. Both the high quality of the training received by non-college-bound German …

time for the working age population (25-64 years of age) in Germany. However, there are intra-individual changes which can …'s wages. …