This paper documents the evolution of sector-level collective agreements in Italy and estimates the wage effects of the diffusion of non-representative agreements, often signed by unknown organisations i.e. pirate agreements. Using employer-employee data from Social Security Archives, we find...

Einige Berufe werden für das Funktionieren unserer Gesellschaft insbesondere in der Corona-Krise als hochrelevant erachtet, was der Begriff "systemrelevant" zum Ausdruck bringen soll. Die Ergebnisse der LohnSpiegel-Daten zeigen, dass die Gehälter in den ausgewählten systemrelevanten Berufen...

In der Corona-Pandemie erfahren soziale Dienstleistungsberufe als "systemrelevante Berufe" eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit und öffentliche Wertschätzung. Vielfach wurde in der Vergangenheit darauf hingewiesen, dass soziale Arbeit in Deutschland strukturell unterbewertet ist. Auch wenn die akute...

By using administrative data fromNew Zealand, we assess the relative importance of job-finding, and job-to-job transition rates for wage dynamics. We exploit the regional variation and find that wages are closely linked to job-to-job transitions and less so to the job- finding rate. Further, the...

We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for new firm cohorts but locked it in for incumbents. Rejecting the canonical hold-up prediction - that increasing...

The survey explores the working arrangements and earnings that apprentices received during 2018-19. The survey included almost 10,000 telephone interviews with apprentices enrolled on a course in Great Britain. The report provides statistics on apprentices': working arrangements, basic hourly...

The survey explores the working arrangements and earnings that apprentices received during 2018-19. The survey included almost 10,000 telephone interviews with apprentices enrolled on a course in Great Britain. The report provides statistics on apprentices': working arrangements, basic hourly...

The types of workers recruited into teaching and their allocation across classrooms can greatly influence a country's stock of human capital. This paper considers how markets and non-market institutions determine the quantity, wages, skills, and spatial distribution of teachers in developing...

The Discussion Paper examines the opportunities that the rising industrial wages in China will bring for Africa. China has been the industrial workbench of the global economy for decades. However, its competitive advantages are waning, particularly for labour-intensive assembly activities in the...

This paper examines how starting one’s career in a weak labour market affects future labour market outcomes using data from 13 European countries. Income losses, so called scarring effects, are found to be solely levied on college graduates. For every percentage point increase in the national...

How do ETH alumni fare in the world of work? How satisfied are they with their job and how much do they earn? Do they think that they perform interesting tasks? How many are in a leadership position? And are there differences between female and male graduates? This report answers these and...

Crowdworking is a new organizational form of work that is attractive for both employees and companies. A great advantage is the flexibility of the design and the need-based access to certain services. Work processes can be made more efficient and flexible. Crowdworking has not yet become an...

Crowdworking is a new organizational form of work that is attractive for both employees and companies. A great advantage is the flexibility of the design and the need-based access to certain services. Work processes can be made more efficient and flexible. Crowdworking has not yet become an...

Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support of this proposition, the present paper challenges the...

As the largest economy in the world, the US labor market is crucial to the economic well-being of citizens worldwide as well, of course, that of its own citizens. Since 2000 the US labor market has undergone substantial changes, both reflecting the Great Recession, but also resulting from some...

This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension (local/regional). We find that particularly negative...

Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on ex-ante...

This paper describes the application of a semiparametric approach, known as a varying coefficients model (Hastie and Tibshirani 1993), to implement a Oaxaca-Blinder type of decomposition in the presence of self-selection into treatment groups for a continuum of comparison groups. The flexibility...

Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...

Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job characteristics and their position in the industrial structure. Utilizing a dataset of 76.6 million Brazilian workers and methods from network science, we map the Brazilian...