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-out clauses in such agreements in East Germany. Rather, the shift of East Germany's economic structure towards lower-paying types …
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regions of unified Germany. If firm-specific effects explain wage dispersion between firms, a decomposition of the wage … to firm-specific influences, like distinctions in market power. For Germany, a considerable part of the difference in the … firms of the same type in East Germany compared with their counterparts in West Germany. -- Productivity ; Wage …
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-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …
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unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …
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Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...
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Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...
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