Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal … minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on … effects are sensitive to measurement errors in wages, the representativeness of the sample with respect to several types of …

Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … lower wages than comparable full-time workers. The results further point out that more experienced women, who accumulated …

, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but institutional rigidities in continental Europe … German workers with and without apprenticeship training. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …

ability. Taking advantage of detailed micro-level panel data from four countries--Britain, Germany, Korea and Switzerland … loss and worker's ability appears only in unionized workers. An exception is Germany, where lower ability workers in both …

part-time employment in both Eastern and Western Germany, but observe no such trend in the UK. This is suggestive of …, act as predictors of transitions from full-time to part-time employment applying Heckman corrected probit models in three … different institutional and cultural contexts; Eastern Germany, Western Germany and the United Kingdom. The analyses show that …