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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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Stimulating part-time work by legal entitlements? : evidence from a German policy experiment
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Gerner, Hans-Dieter - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 4/6, pp. 391-394
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Flächentarifverträge im Zeichen von Abwanderung und Widerspruch: Geltungsbereich, Einflußfaktoren und Öffnungstendenzen
Bellmann, Lutz (contributor); Addison, John T. (contributor) - In: Panelanalysen zu Lohnstruktur, Qualifikation und …, (pp. 11-40). 1999
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Die Bedeutung des beruflichen Bildungsabschlusses in der betrieblichen Weiterbildung - eine Analyse auf der Basis des IAB-Betriebspanels 1997 für West- und Ostdeutschland
Bellmann, Lutz; Düll, Herbert; Gerlach, Knut - In: Panelanalysen zu Lohnstruktur, Qualifikation und …, (pp. 317-347). 1999
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Works council and training effects on satisfaction
Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf; Leber, Ute - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 14, pp. 1177-1181
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Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus : First evidence from linked employer-employee data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia … von kombinierten Firmen- Beschäftigten-Daten aus Deutschland um zu zeigen, dass diese Lohnzuschläge verschwinden, wenn die …
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Does Worksharing Work? Some Empirical Evidence from the IAB Panel
Simmons, R.; Schank, Thorsten; Andrews, Martyn J. - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Recent policy debate in Europe suggests that a shorter workweek will lead to more jobs (worksharing). We derive and estimate a model where the firm employs two types of worker, some working overtime, the rest standard hours. Worksharing is not always a prediction of the theory. Using German...
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … gibt, untersuchen wir, ob dies auch in dem unterschiedlichen institutionellen Umfeld in Deutschland der Fall ist, wo statt …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615504
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German works councils in the production process
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615509