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Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

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Real wage chronologies

Christofides, Louis N.; Peng, Amy Chen - 2007

explore the influence of productivity growth, the industrial relations record of the pair, the influence of industry and …

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Time limits on welfare use under involuntary unemployment

Holzner, Christian; Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - 2004

The impacts of introducing or tightening time limits on welfare use are studied in an efficiency wage model. Those losing access to regular benefits receive some smaller benefit, which can be interpreted as food stamps. Stricter time limits raise both employment and profits and generally reduce...

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An Efficiency-Wage Model with Habit Concerns About Wages

Goerke, Laszlo - 2020

We analyse the implications of habit formation relating to wages in a multi-period efficiency-wage model. If employees … have such preferences, their existence provides firms with incentives to raise wages and reduce employment over time … short-lived productivity shocks have long-lasting wage and employment consequences. Moreover, habit concerns by firm owners …

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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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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? A panel data analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypothesis in … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …

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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...

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Major provisions of labour contracts and their theoretical coherence

Christofides, Louis N.; Peng, Amy Chen - 2006

Theoretical work on indexation and contract duration suggests no role for the expected rate of inflation in equations explaining these variables. Yet, stand-alone or two-equation studies of indexation and contract duration often report that this variable is statistically significant. We study a...

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010

unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the …

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Voice at Work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239560

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