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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …

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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany …

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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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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for …. (3) It links these findings to the recent literature from the new new trade theory on international activities of …

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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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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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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …

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Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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