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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …
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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
Goerke, Laszlo - 2012
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …
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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for …
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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations
Gartner, Hermann - 2010
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....
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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Powell, David - 2010
manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139057
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120841