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The smoking wage penality in the United Kingdom : regression and matching evidence from the British household survey panel

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008

This paper considers the impact of tobacco consumption on wages in the UK using data from fifteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey. Considering both overall smoker status as well as the number of cigarettes consumed, we provide estimates for the smoking wage penalty using standard...

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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 (parlous) state of German unions

Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006

Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …

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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : first evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2006

Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper …

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Who are the workers who never joined a union? : Empirical evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

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Union membership and age : the inverted U-shape hypothesis under test

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …

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The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages : evidence from Germany

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2009

This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big fiveʺ, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

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Are there social returns to both firm-level and regional human capital? : evidence from German social security data

Braakmann, Nils - 2009

This paper provides first evidence on the social returns to education from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions incorporating measures of...

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A note on the causal link between education and health : evidence from the German short school years

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

I exploit exogenous changes in school year length in Germany in 1966 and 1967 to study the causal effect of education …

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