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Questioning the Stereotype of the 'Malingering Bureaucrat' : Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany

Prümer, Stephanie - 2019

for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences … that the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" seems to be an exaggeration, at least for Germany …

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …

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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent: A cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002

differences between the Anglo-Saxon countries and Germany in terms of prevalence and extent of IR as well as in terms of the …

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national Perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

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

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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Labor Demand During the Crisis : What Happened in Germany?

Bohachova, Olga - 2011

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …

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