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Minimum wage non-compliance : the role of co-determination
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023
We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...
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Do changes in regulation affect employment duration in temporary work agencies?
Antoni, Manfred (contributor); Jahn, Elke J. (contributor) - 2006
Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474131
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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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Wage determination in the shadow of the law: the case of works councilors in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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Reassessing the wage penalty for temps in Germany
Jahn, Elke J. (contributor) - 2008
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working … employment ; wage differential ; earnings ; Germany ; reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003750313
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Labor disputes and labor flows
Fraisse, Henri; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - 2011
About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present a simple theoretical...
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When it's (mostly) the taking part that counts : the post-application consequences of employment tribunal claims
Drinkwater, Stephen J. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses the 2003 Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications to examine the post-application employment consequences for individuals registering complaints to Employment Tribunals following dismissal or redundancy. In examining this issue, we consider a number of pieces of evidence: (i)...
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Judge bias in labor courts and firm performance
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Patault, Bérengère; … - 2020
Does labor court uncertainty and judge subjectivity influence firms performance? We study the economic consequences of judge decisions by collecting information on more than 145,000 Appeal court rulings, combined with administrative firm-level records covering the whole universe of French firms....
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The impact of life-course developments on pensions in the NDC systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and point system in Germany
Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka; Góra, Marek; Kotowska, … - 2018
countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798236
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Labour contract regulations and workers’ wellbeing : international longitudinal evidence
Salvatori, Andrea - 2010
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically...
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