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Jirjahn, Uwe; Ottenbacher, Martha - 2020

large representative dataset from Germany, we find that personality traits play a role in a person's own sexual satisfaction …

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Works councils and environmental investment : theory and evidence from German panel data

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephan C. - 2002

Firms may underinvest in local environmental protection even from the private viewpoint of its owners and employees, but works councils may help mitigate this problem. We show that increases in environmental investments when councils are present could be employee-led, firm-led, or jointly-led....

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Worker stress and performance pay : German survey evidence

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2021

While performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages, it has also been associated with a deterioration of worker health. The transmission mechanisms for this deterioration remain in doubt. We examine the hypothesis that increased stress is one transmission...

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Membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2021

overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, this study estimates the determinants of the …

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Performance pay and alcohol use in Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2021

We study the link between performance pay and alcohol use in Germany, a country with mandated health insurance … conclude that even in the face of mandated health insurance, the link found in the US persists in Germany. …

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Out-of-partnership births in East and West Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Chadi, Cornelia - 2019

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly … more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births …. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference between East and West Germany can be explained by economic factors …

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Works councils and workplace health promotion in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Smith, Stephen C. - 2019

safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis …

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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany

Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

attitudes among East and West Germans. Originated from different family policies during Germany's separation, East Germans have …

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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany

Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...

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Nonunion employee representation : theory and the German experience with mandated works councils

Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2017

externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of …

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