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Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006

Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …

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Who are the workers who never joined a union? : Empirical evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

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Union membership and age : the inverted U-shape hypothesis under test

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …

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Effective working hours and wages : the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism

Pfeifer, Christian - 2009

This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time...

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Relative wage positions and quit behavior : new evidence from linked employer-employee data

Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...

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Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings

Pfeifer, Christian - 2011

Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...

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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data

Pfeifer, Christian - 2015

The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...

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Do exporters really pay higher wages? : First evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006

Exports , wages , exporter wage premium , linked employer-employee data , Germany … same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this …

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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 …

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The persistent decline in unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980 - 2004 : what can we learn from a decomposition analysis?

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2006

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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