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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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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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

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The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …

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