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This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not reveal clearly direct effects, but on an establishment...
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Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance payments after those dismissals which stem from plant closings, the incidence of a works council is...
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Using both household and linked employer-employee data for Germany, we assess the effects of non-union representation … correlated with the incidence and the annual duration of absence. We observe a more pronounced correlation in western Germany …
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We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in … 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils … the law. The economic correlates of co-determination, such as higher productivity and wages, affect non-compliance in …
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Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the influence of reciprocal inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to work in firms with a works council while employees...
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The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are …
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system in Germany. Therefore, the provision of occupational as well as private pensions has to be enhanced. However, there … econometrically the determinants of occupational pension provision in Germany. It shows that occupational pensions depend not only on …
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The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the …
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music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …
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Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working …
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