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Industrial relations and the wage differentials between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers within establishments : an empirical analysis with data of manufacturing firms

Hübler, Olaf; Meyer, Wolfgang - 2000

Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...

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

Kölling, Arnd - 2002

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Behavioral effects of probation periods : an analysis of worker absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Residential location and youth unemployment : the economic geography of school-to-work transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post … youth unemployment is centered in high unemployment states and metropolitan areas. Recent changes in academic benefit …

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Income and employment effects of health shocks : a test case for the German welfare state

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

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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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Cohort effects in the educational attainment of second generation immigrants in Germany : an analysis of census data

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know … of immigrants. Their schooling success still lags behind that of natives. We investigate completed degrees and school … attendance of German born immigrants and find considerable evidence suggesting that this group does not assimilate to native …

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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany : the impact on productivity and wages

Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001

This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...

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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 result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

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Rational poverty or poor rationality? : The take-up of social assistance benefits

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2000

In several countries social assistance dependence has been increasing since the 1980s. After surveying the theoretical and empirical take-up literature, this study presents estimates of recent rates of non take-up of social assistance benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior...

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