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High wage workers match with high wage firms : clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2006

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

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The erosion of union membership in Germany : determinants, densities, decompositions

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2006

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

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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 …

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Intergenerational conflict, partisan politics, and public higher education spending : evidence from the German states

Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...

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Works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 126 (2006) 2, pp. 251-283

This paper uses data from a nationally representative panel of establishments to estimate the effects of German works councils on firm performance, 1997 - 2000. We analyze the impact of this institution on sales and sales growth using OLC and fixed effect estimates of a translog production...

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'Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? : Evaluating the German experience

Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …

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Which program for whom? : Evidence on the comparative effectiveness of public sponsored training programs in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

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Making work pay for the elderly unemployed : evaluating alternative policy reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2006

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

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