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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 Stärke her und berechnen ihn mit Jahresdaten für Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die …

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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear 'shadow of death' effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

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Low-wage employment : are low-paid jobs stepping stones to higher paid jobs, do they become persistent, or do they lead to recurring unemployment?

Schnabel, Claus - 2016

Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of lowpaid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is currently an open question. The answer depends on whether...

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Unions, works councils and plant closings in Germany

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Kölling, Arnd - 2002

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German works councils old and new : incidence, coverage and determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

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Threshold values in german labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Job tenure of two cohorts of young German men 1979 - 1990 : an analysis of the (West-)German employment statistic register sample concerning multivatiate failure times and unobserv...

Bellmann, Lutz; Bender, Stefan; Hornsteiner, Ulrich - 2000

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany …

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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence form a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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Works councils - sand or grease in the operation of German firms?

Schank, Thorsten - 2002

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Establishment age and wages : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd - 2002

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