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The institutional context of an empirical law: the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2009
-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271273
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Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus - 2019
Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179960
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Reasons for wage rigidity in Germany
Franz, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
skill groups. Based on a survey of 801 firms in Germany and an econometric analysis, we find strong support for explanations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267511
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The Wage Policy of Firms - Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Data
Grund, Christian - 2002
The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262620
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276474
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Does institutional diversity account for pay rules in Germany and Belgium?
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011
) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same variety of capitalism, we provide evidence that small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280666
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Complex Production Processes and Wage Inequality
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004
This paper studies how changes in the complexity of the firms' production technologies affect wage differences between and within tasks. In a production process where tasks are complementary, the employer may have an incentive to pay higher wages when using more complex technologies because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261823
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Performance pay and earnings: evidence from personnel records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Riddell, Chris - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269236
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Extension of labor contracts and optimal backpay
Danziger, Leif - 2006
This paper explains why a union and a firm might settle on a contract duration that may later be extended and characterizes the optimal backpay for the holdout period. It is shown that the choice between concluding a shorter contract that may be extended and immediately concluding a longer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267712
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269067