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Survival of spinoffs and other startups: First evidence for the private sector in Germany, 1976 - 2008
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954424
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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959640
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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212568
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Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269605
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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011271998
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Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1618-1624
Using a large linked employer–employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market … product market competition than in those experiencing weak competition, whereas no such link shows up for East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278580
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011279309
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United, yet apart? A note on persistent labour market differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252697
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United, yet apart? A note on persistent labour market differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252702
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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265667