"Since 1993 the IAB has maintained a representative information system of the demand side of the labour market in the form of its establishment panel for western Germany. With the inclusion of the new federal states in 1996, the formation of the IAB panel was completed in the whole of Germany....

Mit einem einheitlichen Erhebungsbogen für die Betriebe aller Betriebsgrößen und Branchen startete im Sommer 1993 die erste Welle des "IAB-Betriebspanels". Der Rücklauf betrug 71%. Aus den ersten Querschnittsauswertungen ergeben sich die folgenden Eckdaten: - Die westdeutsche Wirtschaft...

"Representative data of the IAB establishment panel for the year 2002 show that in the private sector nearly half of the western German but not even one fifth of the eastern German establishments that are obliged to pay in line with a collective wage agreement pay above the negotiated wage. In...

"The paper examines the influence of schooling and work experience on the development of wage inequality in the 1990s. On the basis of the employment and benefit recipients historical data file as well as the IAB employment sample, Mincer-type earnings functions are estimated as Tobit and...

"Die im Jahr 1998 durchgeführte Erhebung des IAB-Betriebspanels hatte 'Innovationen im Betrieb' als Schwerpunktthema. Diese Studie analysiert empirisch die kurzfristigen Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen und den damit zusammenhängenden organisatorischen Änderungen in...

"Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...

"Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the agglomeration wage differential. One of the open research question is whether wage differences between large cities and the rural country are due to unobserved differences in regional price levels. In this paper information on regional price...

"Using two nationally representative establishment data sets, this paper investigates collective bargaining coverage and firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both countries have experienced a substantial decline...

"To what extent is the gender wage gap of fulltime employees due to differences in productiv-ity- related characteristics, to discrimination of female employees, and how is the wage gap affected by firm specific features? To analyze these problems we use a linked employer-employee database for...