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 …

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 …

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 …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages …