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

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 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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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

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Women move differently: Job separations and gender

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...

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Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany … gewerkschaftlicher Stäarke her und berechnen ihn mit Jahresdaten für Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die …

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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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Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion: a decomposition based on a microeconometric model

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

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Risky earnings, taxation and entrepreneurial choice: a microeconometric model for Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - 2007

Which role do individual income prospects play in the decision to be an entrepreneur rather than an employee? In a model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I...

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