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Discrete working time choice in an applied general equilibrium model

Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Private incentives to innovate : interplay of new products and brand-name reputation

Leheyda, Nina (contributor) - 2008

This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...

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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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Union density and varieties of coverage : the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …

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Gender earnings gap in German firms : the impact of firm characteristics and institutions

Heinze, Anja (contributor); Wolf, Elke (contributor) - 2006

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the importance of the...

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Firm heterogeneity and wages under different bargaining regimes : does a centralised union care for low-productivity firms?

Gürtzgen, Nicole (contributor) - 2009

sector. Consistent with our hypotheses, the empirical results suggest that under industry-level bargaining workers in more …

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Wage insurance within German firms : do institutions matter?

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009

of considerable job losses and bankruptcy. -- Wage insurance ; linked employer-employee data ; collective bargaining …

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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity … ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining ; unemployment ; microsimulation ; computable general …

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Rent-sharing and collective bargaining coverage : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Gürtzgen, Nicole (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. version

bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we distinguish sector-specific wage agreements, firm-specific wage agreements and … wage determination without any bargaining coverage. Our findings indicate that individual wages are positively related to …

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Analysing welfare reform in a microsimulation-AGE model : the value of disaggregation

Arntz, Melanie (contributor) - 2006

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the...

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