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Tarifverträge und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dienstleistungsunternehmen

Kaiser, Ulrich; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

Der Beitrag untersucht die Verbreitung von Tarifverträgen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen sowie deren Wirkungen auf die Beschäftigungspolitik im Falle von Nachfrageschwankungen. Der empirische Teil basiert auf der ZEW/Creditreform Konjunkturumfrage bei unternehmensnahen...

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Collective wage agreements and the adjustment of workers and hours in German service firms

Kaiser, Ulrich; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production factors when firms from the service sector are faced...

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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

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Lessons of the financial crisis for the attractiveness of European financial centers

Lang, Gunnar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper analyses fundamental location factors for the financial industry by investigating the economic significance of market participants' assessments of location factors and country-specific characteristics over time. A unique data set allows studying the locational attractiveness of...

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Active owners and the failure of newly adopted works councils

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....

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Works councils and the anatomy of wages

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings. The wage premium is around 11 percent (and is higher under...

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Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality

Weiss, Matthias; Garloff, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

evolution of average income and when this is not the case. In the former case, an increase in the productivity of skilled … turn, makes unskilled workers ask for higher wages. As higher wages are not justified by respective productivity increases …

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Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a … reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups in 1997 significantly increases average establishment productivity in 1997 … productivity effect can only be measured in establishments with works councils, i.e. employee induced participation. The estimation …

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How selective are real wage cuts? A micro-analysis using linked employer-employee data

Hirsch, Boris; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

evidence for selective wage cuts with high-productivity workers being spared even when controlling for permanent differences in …

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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

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