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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
Askitas, Nikos - 2012
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117001
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Defaults and Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042970
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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T. - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155159
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany : Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773817
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The (Parlous) State of German Unions
Addison, John T. - 2006
German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780525
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Changes in the German Wage Structure : Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics
Biewen, Martin - 2017
in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995–2010. In contrast to most previous contributions, we rely on the … results suggest that recent changes in the distribution of hourly wages in Germany look different from the polarizing patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956017
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Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942097
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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826232
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Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany
Addison, John T. - 2014
Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051804
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Slip Sliding Away : Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
Addison, John T. - 2010
changes in collective bargaining and worker representation in the private sector in Germany and Britain over the period 1998 …, the decline in collective bargaining is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, thus continuing a trend apparent since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147557