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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 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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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
Goerke, Laszlo - 2012
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …
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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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Do Better Capitalized Banks Lend Less? Long-Run Panel Evidence from Germany
Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
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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Regional Origins of Employment Volatility : Evidence from German States
Buch, Claudia M. - 2008
increase uncertainty through a higher volatility of employment. We use regional data from Germany to test whether openness for …
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Margins of International Banking : Is There a Productivity Pecking Order in Banking, Too?
Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324228
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264999
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272036