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Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed : are natives and second generation migrants alike?

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for … and search intensity. -- Unemployment ; Migration ; Personality Traits ; Risk Attitudes ; Time Preferences ; Trust …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916430

Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that … ; Germany ; Unemployment ; Job Search ; Reservation Wages …

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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? : A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Does working at a start-up pay off?

Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2020

(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …

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Paying more than necessary? : the wage cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...

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Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining : who are they and how do they fare?

Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent workers from joining unions. Using recent administrative data, we investigate which workers in firms covered by collective bargaining agreements still individually benefit from...

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

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Is there a union wage premium in Germany and which workers benefit most?

Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Schnabel, Claus - 2023

Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of...

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