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How national systems differ in their constraints on corporate executives: a study of CEO effects in three countries

Crossland, Craig; Hambrick, Donald C. - In: Strategic management journal 28 (2007) 8, pp. 767-789

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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? : a panel data analysis for 1977 - 2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has …

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The contribution of managers to organizational success : evidence from German soccer

Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

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Let's take bargaining models seriously : the decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; George, Anitha - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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The aging of the unions in West Germany, 1980 - 2006

Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR...

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The determinants of firm performance : unions, works councils, and employee involvement/high performance work practices

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2005

Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links between these two historically separate literatures. The...

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Who are the workers who never joined a union? : Empirical evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005

Using representative data from the German social survey ALLBUS 2002 and the European Social Survey 2002/03, this paper provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all employees in Germany have never been members of a...

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Determinants of trade union membership in Western Germany : evidence from micro data, 1980 - 2000

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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