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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T. - 2019
councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …
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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining : Evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019
We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996--2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865917
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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries
Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondřej - 2008
European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276606
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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
In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...
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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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Why Germany's “Gas Price Brake” Encourages Moral Hazard and Raises Gas Prices
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2022
To help German households and firms with exploding energy costs, the German government is about to implement a new transfer scheme called “gas price brake.” A unique feature of this energy price relief measure is that both households and the industry receive a transfer that increases in...
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers’ wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by...
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Voting in the European Union: Central Europe's lost voice
Schneider, Ondřej - 2008
Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276608
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Unemployment in Germany: Reasons and Remedies
Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - 2003
This paper discusses the reasons for the dismal labor market performance of Germany over the last three decades along with potential remedies. It argues that labor market rigidities along with a generous welfare state in conjunction with certain changes in the economic environment are important...
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Multi-market collusion with demand linkages and antitrust enforcement
Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2009
This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the...
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