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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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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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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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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 (Parlous) State of German Unions

Addison, John T. - 2006

German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …

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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups : First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008

Fackler, Daniel - 2013

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms : The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2021

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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