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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668119
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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien
Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000
In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …
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Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom - evidence from a large panel of survey data
Kalckreuth, Ulf von (contributor); Murphy, Emma (contributor) - 2004
The interrelationship between financial constraints and firm activity is a hotly debated issue. The way firms cope with financial constraints is fundamental to the analysis of monetary transmission, of financial stability and of growth and development. The CBI Industrial Trends Survey contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002681975
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Unionization of retired workers in Europe
Pyka, Vinzenz; Schnabel, Claus - 2023
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...
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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003651053
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Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus : first evidence from linked employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2004
18 Studies, die sich auf Daten aus 20 hochentwickelten, sich entwickelnden und weniger entwickelten Ländern stützen, zeigen, dass die Durchschnittslöhne in exportierenden Firmen höher liegen als in nichtexportierenden Firmen aus gleichen Branche und Region. Die Existenz dieser Lohnzuschläge...
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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; … - 2009
-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … bargaining ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886527
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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity pecking order in banking, too?
Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2009
Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889133
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Income diversification in the German banking industry
Busch, Ramona; Kick, Thomas - 2009
In the last few years it has been possible to observe decreasing interest margins for German universal banks. At the same time, institutions increasingly moved part of their business from interest to fee-earning activities. This study analyzes the determinants of non-interest income and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871368
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GEE estimation of a two-equation panel data model : an analysis of wage dynamics and the incidence of profit-sharing in West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus (contributor); Spieß, Martin (contributor) - 2007
jointly analyze wage dynamics and the incidence of profit-sharing in West Germany. Our findings reveal a significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411717