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German Works Councils in the Production Process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261930

Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

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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Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

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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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

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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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2005

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262197

Works Councils - Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

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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German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

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Who are the workers who never joined a union? Empirical evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2005

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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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? ; first evidence from German linked employer employee data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268599

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