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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry : Evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2014

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …

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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms : Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2021

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...

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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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Establishment Exits in Germany : The Role of Size and Age

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction

Grund, Christian - 2011

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with respect to sex and occupational status. Making use of a German representative sample of employees, we find that employees, who move to a firm with a works council, report...

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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2020

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Self-Employment : Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - 2007

Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999-2000. These tax reforms …

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