1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-025 // 2006

    Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis

    Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-020 // 2006

    Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions

    Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-019 // 2006

    Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

    This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage…

  4. ZEW-Wirtschaftsanalysen Vol. 81 // 2006

    Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften: Traumfach oder Albtraum?

    Die Bedeutung des technologischen Wissens für die Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen und damit auch für ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ist unbestritten. Gerade die Verfügbarkeit von Mitarbeitern mit…

  5. Monograph // 2006

    High-Tech Firms’ Long-Term Export Behaviour – The Experience of German and UK Companies

    The study empirically examines the long-term export behaviour of about 200 young technology-oriented companies from Germany and the UK. These firms were contacted by means of two surveys, in 1997 and 2003. In…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter for Welfare Analysis of Tax-Benefit Policies? An introduction

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen. A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the…