Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that … will fall further -- union membership ; union density ; cohort effects ; West Germany …

; board-level employee representation ; firm performance ; Germany …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … council ; Germany …

; Germany …

Using a rich German panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany. This study …-economic background variables. It aims to answer the question whether Germany can be considered an attractive host country from an … needed most in Germany's skill intensive labor market. Separate estimations for immigrant subgroups confirm the general …

earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US … to family and community factors shared by brothers while the corresponding estimates are 43 percent in Germany and 45 …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … bargaining ; Germany …

; Germany …

become self-employed and those ending up in paid employment. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employed ; Germany …Unter Verwendung eines großen, repräsentativen Datensatzes für Deutschland und verschiedener Abgrenzungen der …