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Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...

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Wage insurance within German firms: do institutions matter?

Guertzgen, Nicole - 2009

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the extent to which employers insure workers against transitory and permanent firm-level shocks. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the amount of wage insurance depends on the nature of industrial relations....

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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? Assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility

Guertzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301688

The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...

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Innovationsstrategien und Forschungsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen

Felder, Johannes; Spielkamp, Alfred - 1998

This paper deals with the innovation behavior and the R&D activities at the firm level in East Germany. The theoretical … and empirical analyses lead to the conclusion that the relatively low level of the R&D intensity in East Germany is a … often in and devote more ressources to R&D than firms in West Germany do. In total, there is no empirical evidence for an …

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The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany: evidence from an establishment panel

Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - 2001

This paper investigates under which conditions firms use fixed-term contracts, subcontracted and freelance work. Using a probit model which accounts for unobserved heterogeneity, we find that positive changes in expected or actual turnover are associated with a higher probability of employing...

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Differentiation of Green Taxes: A Political-Economy Analysis for Germany

Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2006

. Empirical data underpin our theoretical findings: A regression analysis of Germany?s green tax reform explains environmental tax …

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Determinants of acquisition and failure: stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies

Köke, Jens - 2001

This study provides new stylized facts on the determinants of corporate failure and acquisition in Germany. It also …

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Firm Heterogeneity and Wages Under Different Bargaining Regimes: Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-productivity Firms?

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009

This paper studies the relationship between wages and the degree of firm heterogeneity in a given industry under different wage setting structures. To derive testable hypotheses, we set up a theoretical model that analyses the sensitivity of wages to the variability in productivity conditions in...

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Estimating the wage premium of collective wage contracts: Evidence from longitudinal linked employer-employee data

Guertzgen, Nicole - 2012

Using a large-scale linked-employer-employee data set from western Germany, this paper presents new evidence on the …

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