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Works councils, training and employee satisfaction

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf; Leber, Ute - 2018

This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not reveal clearly direct effects, but on an establishment...

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Job satisfaction and work-life balance: differences between homework and work at the workplace of the company

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2020

Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...

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The "good workplace" : the role of joint consultative committees, unions and HR policies in employee ratings of workplaces in Britain

Barry, Michael P.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2018

Using new, rich data on a representative sample of British workers, we examine the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, accounting for possible interactions with union and management-led high-commitment strategies. We focus on non-union...

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Do newly founded firms pay lower wages? First evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2004

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …Unter Verwendung eines kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten- Datensatzes für Deutschland analysiert dieser Beitrag die …

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

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes präsentieren wir erste empirische Ergebnisse für Deutschland zu diesem Zusammenhang. Wir stellen fest, dass innerhalb …

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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from 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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Management compensation and the economic crisis : longitudinal evidence from the German chemical sector

Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2013

Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards. Carrying out longitudinal analyses, we find that, on...

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Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2016

We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the...

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Job preferences as revealed by employee initiated job changes

Grund, Christian - 2011

as sex and age are explored. Those between East- and West-Germany diminish over time. -- job characteristics ; job …

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Monetary reference points of managers : an empirical investigation of status quo preferences and social comparisons

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2012

We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a...

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