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Betriebsvereinbarung versus Tarifsystem
Lesch, Hagen; Möschel, Wernhard; Schnabel, Claus; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 57 (2004) 03, pp. 3-23
der Lohnbildung in Deutschland abzumildern, wäre es wahrscheinlich hilfreicher, die Betriebsebene zu umgehen und die …
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Industrie in Deutschland weiterhin sehr wettbewerbsfähig
Birnbrich, Manuel; Nerb, Gernot - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 03, pp. 34-38
Die hohe Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Deutschland belegen nicht nur "harte" Daten wie ein …
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EU-Fördergelder: "Subventions-Hopping" oder sinnvolle Investitionsförderung - brauchen wir mehr Transparenz?
Thoben, Christa; Schauerte, Hartmut; Pieper, Markus; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 05, pp. 3-15
beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, verweist auf die Zahlungen, die Deutschland aus den EU …-Strukturfonds erhält: "In der laufenden Förderperiode 2007-2013 werden rund 26,3 Mrd. € aus den EU-Strukturfonds nach Deutschland fließen … von Transparenz. Leider lasse sich auf Grundlage eines recht allgemeinen Berichtswesens der Mitgliedstaaten die …
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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004
18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...
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Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated crosssectional analyses suggest that a...
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Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that the level and the structure of unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below...
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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...
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Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004
Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2005
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may be expected to limit their exposure to rent seeking by reducing investments, among other things....
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Works Councils - Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.
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