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Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential Evidence from the UK and Germany

Machin, Stephen; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in …

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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

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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

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …

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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2005

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

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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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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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