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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms?

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Applied economics letters 11 (2004) 3, pp. 159-161

Using a large panel data set it is investigated whether works councils act as a sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency

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Is the German labour market granular?

Kovalenko, Tim; Schnabel, Claus; Stüber, Heiko - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 1, pp. 41-48

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Positional income concerns and personality : evidence from Germany

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 14, pp. 1024-1028

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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...

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The institutional context of an empirical law: the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

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Trade union membership in Eastern and Western Germany: convergence or divergence?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

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Intangibles, can they explain the dispersion in return rates?

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin - 2010

unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is …

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Optimal income taxation of married couples: an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation

Haan, Peter; Navarro, Dolores - 2008

In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...

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A structural approach to estimating the effect of taxation on the labor market dynamics of older workers

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2009

We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non- separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...

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