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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination

Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …

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Women move differently : job separations and gender

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men. -- job separations ; gender ; gender pay gap …

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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? : testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...

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The institutional context of an 'empirical law' : the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2009

The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical studies have not taken into account that differences in the institutional framework may have an impact...

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Let's take bargaining models seriously : the decline in union power in Germany,1992 - 2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...

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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : evidence from the employers' side

Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...

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