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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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Performance-Related Funding of Universities : Does More Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118471
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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009
Hirsch, Boris - 2011
results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121755
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants …
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124784
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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Fackler, Daniel - 2012
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096121
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Business Taxation and Wages : Evidence from Individual Panel Data
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2012
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103485
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108229
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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2009
exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154982
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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany
Jung, Sven - 2009
Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158067