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Raising rivals' fixed (labor) costs : the Deutsche Post case
Heitzler, Sven; Wey, Christian - 2010
We analyze the bargaining problem of an incumbent firm and a union when the wage contract becomes generally binding …
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A cartel analysis of the German labor institutions and its implications for labor market reforms
Haucap, Justus (contributor); Pauly, Uwe (contributor);  … - 2006
system of collective bargaining between a single industry union and the industry's employers association. Our cartel analysis … establishment of a fully tariff-enabled union. Such an endeavor must go hand in hand with the institutionalization of a competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411719
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Empiricism meets theory : is the Boone-Indicator applicable?
Schiersch, Alexander; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens - 2010
Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) with superior theoretical properties. However, the empirical applicability and robust-ness of the Boone-Indicator is still unknown. This paper aims to address that question. Using a rich, newly built,...
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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003651053
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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of … Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom effects in the determination of trade union membership in both countries … which restrict free-riding on union services. The impact of social custom effects tends to be independent of union density …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668119
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Monetary and Wage Policies in the Euro Area
Carlberg, Michael (contributor) - 2007
Studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. It also features numerical simulations of policy competition and numerical solutions to policy cooperation
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520641
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Parental leave benefits and child penalties
Waights, Sevrin - 2022 - This version: August 2022
I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that...
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Structural unemployment and the output gap in Germany : evidence from an SVAR analysis within a hysteresis framework
Fritsche, Ulrich; Logeay, Camille - 2002
The German unemployment rate shows strong signs if non-stationarity over the course of the previous decades. This is in line with an insider-outsider model under full hysteresis. We applied a "theory-guided view" to the data using the structural VAR model as developed by Balmaseda, Dolado and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437007
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Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market : Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany
Winkler, Deborah - 2009
Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...
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Would a flat tax stimulate entrepreneurship in Germany? : a behavioural microsimulation analysis allowing for risk
Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2008
When possible income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in favour or against a certain policy. Quantitative ex-ante evaluations of the effect of certain tax reform options on entrepreneurship based on microeconometric research have not...
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