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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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results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly … different rates of unemployment. These differences may reflect observable and unobservable characteristics of economic actors as …
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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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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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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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Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …
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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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provides the first empirical analysis of trade union nevermembership 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 nevermembership is significantly …
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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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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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