Showing 1 - 10 of 141
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262247
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company … level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269284
codetermination at the workplace. This framework is key to understanding the progress that has been made in analysing the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261591
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274606
paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262376
Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National … Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts … immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the profile of immigrants being provided is accurate. For example, QNHS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268535
destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants in Ireland from the NMS using a new large-scale dataset on … employees in Ireland. In so doing, we add to the emerging strand in the literature on immigrant earnings that looks beyond … determinant of the immigrant-native earnings gap for NMS immigrants in Ireland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268644
Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession … growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was expected. However, the rate of inflow exceeded all expectations …. Based on census information, the number of EU10 nationals living in Ireland grew from around 10,000 in 2002 to 120,000 in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269369
Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated … from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we are testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269471
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271579