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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations
Gartner, Hermann - 2010
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany
Grund, Christian - 2013
We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find a negative relationship between works councils and both kinds...
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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T. - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …
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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis …
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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Bender, Stefan - 2021
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms : The Case of the Disability Law
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2021
According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...
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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?
Baumann, Julian - 2016
than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …
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The 'Good Workplace' : The Role of Joint Consultative Committees, Unions and HR Policies in Employee Ratings of Workplaces in Britain
Barry, Michael - 2018
Using new, rich data on a representative sample of British workers, we examine the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, accounting for possible interactions with union and management-led high-commitment strategies. We focus on non-union...
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The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice : An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice
Bryson, Alex - 2017
We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...
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