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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...
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Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining : who are they and how do they fare?
Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022
In Deutschland zahlen Arbeitgeber traditionell den gleichen Tariflohn für Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und -nichtmitglieder …In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent … bargaining agreements still individually benefit from these union agreements, which workers are not covered anymore, and what …
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The (parlous) state of German unions
Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006
Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317786
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020
This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document...
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Relevance and detection problems of margin squeeze : the case of German gasoline prices
Kleineberg, Christoph; Wein, Thomas - 2015
In contrast to the United States, Germany decided to add margin squeeze as a legal offense to German competition law. In response to this, the problems in the gasoline market have caused major debates. This paper examines the pricing strategies by gasoline retailers and discusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438566
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Collusive upward gasoline price movements in medium-sized German cities
Neukirch, Arne; Wein, Thomas - 2016
Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100,000, we analyze which brands lead price increases, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487769
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Intra-firm wage inequality and firm performance : first evidence from German linked employer-employee-data
Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008
Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity. This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on this subject. We combine German employer-employee-data for the years 1995-2005 with inequality measures using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003640187
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Fields of training, plant characteristics and the gender wage gap in entry wages among skilled workers : evidence from German administrative data
Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security record. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for both the training plant and the current employer, results from standard decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727428
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An empirical examination of repeated auctions for biodiversity conservation contracts
Groth, Markus (contributor) - 2008
The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural …
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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? : first evidence from German employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than nonexporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
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