Similar Search Results

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 … union membership fee is typically about one percent of workers' gross wages, this finding suggests that it pays off to be a … union member. Our results show that the wage premium differs substantially between various occupations and educational …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545636

Wage determination in the shadow of the law: the case of works councilors in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483277

Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415783

Identifying the role of labor markets for monetary policy in an estimated DSGE model

Christoffel, Kai (contributor); Küster, Keith (contributor) - 2006

We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary policy. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process and derive monetary policy implications. Towards that aim, we structurally model matching frictions and rigid wages...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339179

Public employment agency reform, matching efficiency, and German unemployment

Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2023

Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228264

Reforming the labor market and improving competitiveness : an analysis for Spain using FiMod

Schwarzmüller, Tim; Stähler, Nikolai - 2011

This paper uses an extended version of “FiMod – A DSGE Model for Fiscal Policy Simulations” (Stähler and Thomas, 2011) with endogenous job destruction decisions by private firms to analyze the effects of several currently discussed labor market reforms on the Spanish economy. The main...