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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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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining: Who are they and how do they fare?

Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …In Deutschland zahlen Arbeitgeber traditionell den gleichen Tariflohn für Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und -nichtmitglieder …

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Is there a union wage premium in Germany and which workers benefit most?

Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Schnabel, Claus - 2023

union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the …Mit repräsentativen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels findet diese Studie für Deutschland eine statistisch …

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The German model of industrial relations: (Where) does it still exist?

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2017

service sector and in eastern Germany, and its extent is increasing dramatically. …

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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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International benchmarking in electricity distribution: a comparison of French and German utilities

Cullmann, Astrid; Crespo, Hélène; Plagnet, Marie-Anne - 2008

Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe. We examine the relative performance of 99 French and 77 …

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Unobserved heterogeneity and international benchmarking in public transport

Cullmann, Astrid; Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo - 2009

We analyze the technical efficiency of German and Swiss urban public transport companies by means of SFA. In transport networks we might face different network structures or complexities, not observed, but influencing the production process. The unobserved factors are typically modeled as...

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Dynamics of earnings and hourly wages in Germany

Myck, Michał; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - 2009

2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. …

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Household savings decision and income uncertainty

Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - 2010

This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in...

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