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The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK

Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...

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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the...

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Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK

van Ham, Maarten; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously: The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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