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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan

Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...

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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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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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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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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

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Wage Cyclicality under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

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