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Wages and Mobility
How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply? (with Albrecht Glitz), CReAM Discussion Paper No 18/11 (2011)
Referral-based Job Search Networks (with Albrecht Glitz and Uta Schönberg), CReAM Discussion Paper No 14/11 (2011)
Revisiting the German Wage Structure (joint with Johannes Ludsteck and Uta Schoenberg); Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124, (2), 843-881
Training and Union Wages (joint with Uta Schoenberg); Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376
Wages, Experience and Seniority (with C. Meghir), Review of Economic Studies, vol. 72, 2005
Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the UK and in Germany (joint with Sonia Pereira); Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 374-393, 2008
Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages (with Maria Engracia Rochina-Barrachina), Econometrics Journal, 10, 2, 2007
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Worker Displacement in France and in Germany (with Stefan Bender, David Margolis and Costas Meghir), in Loosing Work: International Perspectives on Job Displacement, Peter Kuhn (ed), Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2002, pp. 375-471.
Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages (with Maria Engracia Rochina-Barrachina), IZA Discussion Paper No 162, June 2000.
Wages and Hours Worked in the Private and Public Sectors in Germany (with Arthur vanSoest), in Public Sector Pay Determination within the European Union, R.F. Elliot (ed), MacMillan Press, London, 1999.
Public and Private sector wages of male workers in Germany (with Arthur vanSoest), European Economic Review, 42, 1417-1441, 1998.
Wages in the First Job after Apprenticeship Training (with Rob Euwal and Arthur vanSoest), MITTAB, 3, pp.671-674, 1997.
Wages in the Public and Private Sectors in Germany: 1984-1993 (with Arthur van Soest), Fiscal Studies, 18, 225-247, 1997.
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