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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; … - 2009
-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299897
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302617
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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302619
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Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany … gewerkschaftlicher Stäarke her und berechnen ihn mit Jahresdaten für Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306815
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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis
Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007
Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260899
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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324232
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Effective profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base: evidence from German corporate tax return data
Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2008
introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265036
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Financial leverage and corporate taxation: evidence from German corporate tax return data
Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2009
corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial leverage is measured by the ratio of long-term debt to total capital. Endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271086
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Asymmetric monetary policy effects in Germany
Tober, Silke; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004
In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274488
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Declining Output Volatility in Germany : Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy
Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004
We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274489