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context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … gibt, untersuchen wir, ob dies auch in dem unterschiedlichen institutionellen Umfeld in Deutschland der Fall ist, wo statt …
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Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …
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unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals' probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …
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We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...
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In a recent survey, Frege (2002) concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a `dead end´. The present treatment offers a different conclusion based on a more encompassing review of the evidence. It will identify three distinct phases in the economic analysis of...
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Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …
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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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German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
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