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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
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Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a …
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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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We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
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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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This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large...
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Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of …
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