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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 collective...

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...

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Minimum wages and employment : the case of German unification

Heitger, Bernhard - 2001

Germany seems to have disregarded important fundamentals. Premature formation of a currency union led to a substantial real …

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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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The unemployment accelerator

Blanco, Andres; Navarro, Gaston - 2016

This paper studies the unemployment accelerator, a mechanism where workers directly affect the firms' financial conditions, and, in turn, firms' financial conditions feedback again to the real economy. The unemployment accelerator builds on two key assumptions: search frictions in the labor...

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The impact of wage-setting institutions on the incidence of public employment in the OECD : 1960 - 98

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2002

Using data on 17 OECD countries for 1960-98, this paper studies the impact of unions on public employment incidence, using macrodata and microdata. Macrodata show that greater coverage by centralized collective bargaining institutions raises the public employment share, controlling for country...

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Union bargaining power and product innovation : relevance of the preference function

Basak, Debasmita; Hoefele, Andreas; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2014

union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost … of innovation is moderate but low. Otherwise, a higher union bargaining power reduces innovation. Hence, whether a higher … union bargaining power increases or decreases product innovation depends on the type of wage bargaining, market expansion …

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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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"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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