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This paper investigates the relationship between the use of temporary agency work and the user firm's productivity. We hypothesise that modest use enhances numerical flexibility and thus productivity, while excessive use mirrors lowproductivity strategies utilising less social and human capital...
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This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find that having a low-wage job increases the probability of being low-paid and decreases the chances of being...
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Germany. Official statistics are used to give an overview over the development of the dropout rate and its regional and school …-type specific differences. Dropout rates are highest in Eastern Germany, for non-citizens, male students and students in …Obwohl viel über Personen mit fehlenden Bildungsabschlüssen diskutiert wird, gibt es für Deutschland bislang keinen …
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … council ; Germany …
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Based on a cohort of establishments from the IAB Establishment Panel which hired their first employee in 1995/96, this paper analyzes potential determinants of the survival and employment growth of these newly founded firms until the year 2003. There are few robust results that are statistically...
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German labour law contains a large number of thresholds. These indicate which number of employees in the establishment is needed so that the law or regulation comes into effect. The paper shows how different definitions of the term number of employeesʺ can make it difficult for enterprises to...
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Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...
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Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing …
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model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked employer-employee dataset for Germany, we find that …
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