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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2020

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany : The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

Addison, John T. - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

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Business Cycles and Start-Ups Across Industries : An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Konon, Alexander - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany …

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Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany : A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?

Addison, John T. - 2014

exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally …

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Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany

Addison, John T. - 2014

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...

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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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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

Addison, John T. - 2019

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

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The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation : Change and Persistence in the German Model

Addison, John T. - 2011

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross …

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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