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Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...
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trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
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Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …
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unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals? probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …
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present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …
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context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
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Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.
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Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …
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provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
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