Using employer-employee data from Germany, this paper analyzes the relationship between wages and past and … business cycle. The results are mixed: On the one hand, the data suggest that wages depend on labor market conditions when a … contemporaneous wages through the evolution of match quality over a worker's job history - the main hypothesis of the on …

In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the in-dividual wages is important, because … it reflects the program effect on human capital. Esti-mating these effects is complicated because we observe wages only … program, we find that a considerable improvement of the long-run potential wages of its participants. -- Bounds ; treatment …

data reveals that workers are more likely to accept lower wages when daily commuting expenses can be reduced. In other …

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …

German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage … attributed to low inflation expectations and low productivity growth. There is no evidence - from either aggregate or micro …

influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility maximization directly implies increasing and concave shaped wage … profiles. Furthermore, employees get unhappier over time staying on a certain job although wages increase. Using data from 19 …

In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual wages is important, because … it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because we observe wages only … program, we find that a considerable improvement of the long-run potential wages of its participants …

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After …

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the … employees staying at the firm. -- job satisfaction ; wages ; works councils …