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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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A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and the Transition to Motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260798

Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

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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The institutional context of an empirical law: the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

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Trade union membership in Eastern and Western Germany: convergence or divergence?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

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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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms: a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

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Intangibles, can they explain the dispersion in return rates?

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin - 2010

unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is …

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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Asymmetric monetary policy effects in Germany

Tober, Silke; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …

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Declining Output Volatility in Germany : Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …

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