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Minimum wage non-compliance : the role of co-determination
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023
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 with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...
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Mehr Angst vor Arbeitsplatzverlust seit Hartz? : langfristige Entwicklung der Beschäftigungsunsicherheit in Deutschland
Erlinghagen, Marcel - 2010
empfundene Angst vor dem Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes seit Mitteder 1980er Jahre in Deutschland verändert hat. Dabei zeigt sich …
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Trade union membership and dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …
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Income in jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks
Hetschko, Clemens; Preuß, Malte - 2015
Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one’s job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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Losing work, moving away? : regional mobility after job loss
Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa - 2016
Using German survey data, we investigate the relationship between involuntary job loss and regional mobility. Our results show that job loss has a strong positive effect on the propensity to relocate. We also analyze whether the high and persistent earnings losses of displaced workers can in...
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Who buffers income losses after job displacement? : the role of alternative income sources, the family, and the state
Fackler, Daniel; Weigt, Eva - 2016
Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed...
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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification : first evidence from panel data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
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A level playing field : an optimal weighting scheme of dismissal protection characteristics
Kind, Michael - 2013
-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2010 is used to estimate, conditional on the existence of dismissal protection, the …
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The role of works councils for severance payments
Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2017
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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The nature and extent of job separations in Germany : some new evidence from SOEP
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2009
This paper analyses job separations in Germany using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel spanning from 1984 to … of job separations in Germany. It brings to light some patterns of separations that have hitherto been unexplored. The …, particularly in the event of exogenous shocks. Targeting minorities in the face of a major shock of the sort experienced in Germany …
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