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The dispersion of bonus payments within and between firms
Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2017
We explore the dispersion of bonus payments of managers within and between five large firms from the German chemical sector. We use data from a yearly salary survey in these firms during the observation period 2008 to 2013. Bonus payments account for 20 percent of base salaries on average. Both...
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Does institutional diversity account for pay rules in Germany and Belgium?
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015
criteria to measuring inequality of opportunity in Germany. We illustrate our ex-post inequality of opportunity approach based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347163
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754706
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The wage policy of firms : comparative evidence for the US and Germany from personnel data
Grund, Christian - 2002
The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130116
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The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self-assessed health in Germany
Hullegie, Patrick; Klein, Tobias J. - 2010
In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976127
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One last puff? : public smoking bans and smoking behavior
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …
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In absolute or relative terms? : how framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524386
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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism
Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
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