We provide new evidence on the effectiveness of West German labour market programmesby evaluating training and employment programmes that have been conducted 2000-2002after the first large reform of German labour market policy in 1998. We employ exceptionallyrich administrative data that allow...

An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity andsignificant spikes at zero. We extend this earlier approach to encompass the possibility ofreal as well as nominal wage...

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow intounemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows...

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and thedifferences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little isknown about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and theirdescendants...

When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration oftheir studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-todegree.This paper investigates individual time-to-degree in a model where studentsdetermine the optimum...

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are moreproductive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show thatexporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result isthat most previous studies are...

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-workerpay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire...<br<

This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product marketliberalization on employment when there are interactions between policies and institutions inproduct and labor markets...

This paper establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation: longdistancemigration rates within the US. This internal migration offers a bird’s eye view ofworker reallocation in the economy as long-distance migrants often change jobs oremployment status, altering...