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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328993
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262540
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Real wages and the business cycles in Germany
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274586
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Reassessing the wage penalty for temps in Germany
Jahn, Elke J. - 2008
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268722
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Paying more than necessary? The wage cushion in Germany
Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269109
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Low-wage careers: are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?
Mosthaf, Alexander; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2010
Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269533
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Wage mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898
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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262783
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Don't worry, be happy? Happiness and reemployment
Krause, Annabelle - 2012
also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291422
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Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020
their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to … the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners …) the impact of differences in labour force growth upon unemployment in Eurozone countries has been significant and (ii) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270216