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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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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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results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …
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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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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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Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …
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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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service sector and in eastern Germany, and its extent is increasing dramatically …
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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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