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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...

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Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

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The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

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Wage Cyclicality under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

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