empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes präsentieren wir erste empirische Ergebnisse für Deutschland zu diesem Zusammenhang. Wir stellen fest, dass innerhalb …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

Germany from 1980 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce … variables such as age, public sector employment and being a blue collar worker (significant in western Germany only). A … decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and between eastern and western Germany to a large degree …

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …Unter Verwendung eines großen kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten-Datensatzes für Deutschland finden wir, dass die …

-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes für Deutschland verfolgen wir Betriebe, die anfangen zu exportieren, über die Zeit. Wir zeigen, dass der …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … Kenngrößen wie der Produktivität, der Qualifikationsstruktur und den Löhnen, wobei Mikrodaten für die USA und Deutschland …