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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269936
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274606
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Foreign ownership and firm survival: First evidence for enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282635
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Adverse workplace conditions, high-involvement work practices and labor turnover: evidence from Danish linked employer-employee data
Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels … - 2009
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277256
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Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms
Hübler, Olaf; Meyer, Wolfgang - 2000
Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262385
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Trust and control at the workplace: evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2009
Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269411
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Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2003
British emigrants for longer than most, the ?deglobalisation? of British labour only dates from the 1960s. Since that time … there has been a secular fall in British emigration, and this has been a major component in the transformation of the UK … British emigration can be clearly identified. The same effects, applied to the later period, suggest that mass emigration from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261562
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Margins of multinational labor substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - 2006
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267727
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Media slant against foreign owners: Downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - 2012
-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289889
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Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs
Görg, Holger - 2002
This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265567