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Is there monopsonistic discrimination against immigrants? : first evidence from linked employer-employee data

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J. - 2012

This paper investigates immigrants’ and natives’ labour supply to the firm within a semi-structural approach based on a … find that once accounting for unobserved worker heterogeneity immi-grants supply labour less elastically to firms than … immigrants thereby accounting for almost the entire unexplained native–immigrant wage differential of 2.9–5.9 log points. Our …

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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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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure

Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002

During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany....

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Does working at a start-up pay off?

Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2020

(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …

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Firm leadership and the gender pay gap : do active owners discriminate more than hired managers?

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2010

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run firms. We hypothesise that owner-run firms have higher pay gaps because active owners are less inhibited to live out profit-reducing...

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? : A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

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Paying more than necessary? : the wage cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...

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Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining : who are they and how do they fare?

Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent workers from joining unions. Using recent administrative data, we investigate which workers in firms covered by collective bargaining agreements still individually benefit from...

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