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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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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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Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law : The Case of Works Councilors in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...

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Financial risk aversion and household asset diversification

Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more...

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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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'Take it or go to court': The impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010

on panel data for West Germany indicate that the legal change did have a negative effect on severance pay. …

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

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Do better capitalized banks lend less? Long-run panel evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012

Insufficient capital buffers of banks have been identified as one main cause for the large systemic effects of the recent financial crisis. Although higher capital is no panacea, it yet features prominently in proposals for regulatory reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect...

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