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Hysteresis in West German unemployment reconsidered
Reutter, Michael - 2000
The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … the explanatory variables. Building on a cointeg ration model of the employment rate in West Germany, I find only weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781510
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The shortfall in formal employee participation at the European workplace
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
Cross-country data are used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in EU establishments with formal workplace employee representation. The desire for greater involvement is smaller where workplace representation is via works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942680
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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 …
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Job satisfaction and trade union membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332094
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Globalization, fertility and marital behavior in a lowest-low fertility setting
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on … the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202383
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Tear down this wall : on the persistence of borders in trade
Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The … evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898827
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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration
Kohler, Wilhelm (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496505
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European monetary union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781695
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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions
Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013
Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764940
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Welfare-enhancing trade unions in an oligopoly with excessive entry
De Pinto, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo - 2019
Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024580