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Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany : the deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018

This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...

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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...

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Wage cyclicality and labour market institutions

Pereira, João Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024

Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on … union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of the effect of union density on the wage gap … sources of the union wage gap. A generalization of this technique is applied for the nonlinear case. We find evidence of a …

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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.

Addison, John T. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Bargained wages, wage drift and the design of the wage setting system

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); Portugal, Pedro (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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Is there a union wage premium in Germany and which workers benefit most?

Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Schnabel, Claus - 2023

union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the … union membership fee is typically about one percent of workers' gross wages, this finding suggests that it pays off to be a … union member. Our results show that the wage premium differs substantially between various occupations and educational …

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