"The authors use German linked employer-employee data for the years 1990, 1995 and 2001 to analyze, which dimensions of wage setting differ across three wage-setting regimes: Establishments applying sectoral collective contracts, establishments with firm-level contracts and uncovered...

"The paper analyses the relationship between individual tenure and the application of collective contracts at the firm level, using a multi-level model and a German linked employer-employee data set for the years 1990, 1995 and 2001. The main result is that elapsed tenure is longer in firms...

This paper analyses the relationship between individual tenure and the application of collective contracts at the firm level under the specific institutional settings in Germany. The empirical approach is based on a multilevel model and a linked employer-employee data set for the years 1990,...

"The discussion contributions for the workshop 'Strategies for more employment - international experiences' were judged differently by the representatives of trade unions, employers and central and local government who participated. There was some consensus, or at least partial agreement, as to...

Der Autor faßt die Tagungsbeiträge und die Ergebnisse eines Workshops des IAB zur Lohnkurve kurz zusammen. Die Tagungsbeiträge sind in dem Heft ebenfalls abgedruckt. Im Anschluß folgen Literaturhinweise zum Themenschwerpunkt. (IAB)

"Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie sich die ökonomische Analyse des Arbeitsmarktes heute aus der Perspektive fünf neuerer arbeitsökonomischer Lehrbücher darstellt. Die Auswahl beschränkt sich auf je zwei Publikationen aus den USA und England, Ländern mit langer arbeitsökonomischer...

"On the basis of establishment data for the manufacturing industry in Lower Saxony this article combines two research approaches which have so far been dealt with separately to a large extent in specialist literature. These are the influence of technological progress on the one hand and of...

"Theoretical and empirical research shows that an individual’s earned income is not only dependent on his/her individual productivity-relevant characteristics. The employer and his pay policy, too, have an independent influence on the pay level, which is reflected by the payment of company...

"The correlations between investments, reorganization and further training existing at company level are examined in this paper. A production theory approach in conjunction with an optimisation calculation of the companies shows that the variables focused on here are mutually dependent on one...