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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and supplementary information collected from the firms with...

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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Heitmueller, Axel; Mavromaras, Kostas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper studies the public-private pay gap in the fast changing economic and political environment of the...

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