the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages … changes in the distribution of hourly wages between 1990 and 1997 and analyze the economic factors determining these changes …

motherhood, since we find first births to reduce women?s wages by 16 to 19 percent, regardless of the matching procedure applied …We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching … approach where mothers? wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm …

motherhood, since we find first births to reduce women?s wages by 16 to 19 percent, regardless of the matching procedure applied …We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching … approach where mothers? wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation … approaches: regression based matching and matching on the propensity score. The richness of the data set favors the use of these … changes in workplaces that have occurred in recent decades, IT users would be worse off in terms of wages had they not started …

employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use … years after the reform, the wages of employees in deregulated crafts increased by five percent less than wages of employees … entropy matching on the basis of a large representative administrative linked employer-employee panel data set to guarantee …

In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation … approaches: regression based matching and matching on the propensity score. The richness of the data set favors the use of these … changes in workplaces that have occurred in recent decades, IT users would be worse off in terms of wages had they not started …