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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...

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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts … only to falling unemployment and is unaffected by rising unemployment. …

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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

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Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment

Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2018

The effects of large minimum wage increases, like those planned in the UK and in some US states, are still unknown. We conduct a survey experiment that randomly assigns increases or decreases in minimum wages to about 6,000 establishments in Germany and asks the personnel managers about their...

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Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...

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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 collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...

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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...

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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 workers from joining unions. Using recent administrative data, we investigate which workers in firms covered by collective bargaining agreements still individually benefit from...

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