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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212568

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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Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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