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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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The positive economics of labor market rigidities and investor protection

Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2001

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Awareness reduces racial bias

Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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