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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015

collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …

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Temporary agency work and the Great Recession

Baumgarten, Daniel; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2016

We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of...

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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What do workers want? : the shortfall in employee participation at the European workplace

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...

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The 2015 European refugee crisis and residential housing rents in Germany

Kürschner Rauck, Kathleen; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2018

We study the impact of the 2015 mass arrival of refugees to Germany on residential housing rents. Using unique data on … end of year county-level refugee populations and data on monthly offers of flats for rent from Germany's leading online … property broker Immobilienscout24, we find strong evidence in difference-in-differences regressions for a negative effect of …

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