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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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In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …
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We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...
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four major European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). As opposed to the benchmark rational …
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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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Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …
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This paper examines the consequences of using "real-time" data for business cycle analysis in Germany based on a novel …
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We report results on the ex ante predictability of monthly excess stock returns in Germany using real-time and revised …
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