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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
-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271273
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The (parlous) state of German unions
Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006
Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317786
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Who are the workers who never joined a union? : Empirical evidence from Germany
Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005
provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003318007
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Union membership and age : the inverted U-shape hypothesis under test
Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793392
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Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining : who are they and how do they fare?
Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022
In Deutschland zahlen Arbeitgeber traditionell den gleichen Tariflohn für Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und -nichtmitglieder …In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990127
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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2013
representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329106
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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270254
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Uncovered Workers in Plants Covered by Collective Bargaining: Who Are They and How Do They Fare?
Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022
In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177753
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Is There a Union Wage Premium in Germany and Which Workers Benefit Most?
Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Schnabel, Claus - 2023
union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296588
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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - 2014
setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377352