stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

work, wages or qualificationdiffer between new and established firms. Although a wide strand of literature in …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils … dampen the adjustment of wages to the regional unemployment situation. In the other regimes of plants that either do not make …

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage …-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with rising unemployment, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to … consider labor market rigidities, which are particularly relevant in Germany and other European countries. We find that the …

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …

Germany did not establish a statutory minimum wage until 2015. The new wage floor was set at an initial level of €8 … wages and the wage distribution including issues of compliance in relation to the implementation of the new minimum wage, on … profits. The evidence shows that the minimum wage has increased hourly wages significantly, while the effect on monthly …

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners … increase in their prices and in German wages. This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German …