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Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen : eine empirische Studie mit Firmendaten
Peters, Ralf-Henning - 2000
Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss des Tarifvertragssystems auf die Entscheidung von Unternehmen, im Ausland zu investieren. Ein Lohnverhandlungsmodell zeigt, dass produktive Unternehmen durch Flächentarifverträge im Heimatland begünstigt werden und seltener im Ausland investieren als bei...
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Firm heterogeneity and wages under different bargaining regimes : does a centralised union care for low-productivity firms?
Gürtzgen, Nicole (contributor) - 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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Wage insurance within German firms : do institutions matter?
Gürtzgen, 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873008
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Productivity and distribution effects of codetermination in an efficient bargaining
Kraft, Kornelius - 2017
Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might affect the efficiency of production and the bargaining power of labor. Based on a model that covers both efficient bargaining and employment bargaining a simple equation is...
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...
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Die Arbeitsmarktanalyse in der wirtschaftspolitischen Beratung des Sachverständigenrates
Franz, Wolfgang - 2013
dem Hintergrund der hohen und persistenten Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland in den jeweiligen Jahresgutachten des SVR einen …
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Spillover effects of labour market reforms in a three-country world
Fries, Claudia - 2015
I extend the model-based literature on spillover effects of labour market reforms on foreign (un-)employment by allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform causes an additional indirect effect through a terms-of-trade...
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Labour market institutions and structural reforms : a source for business cycle synchronisation?
Sachs, Andreas; Schleer, Frauke - 2009
Erweiterungsprozesses der Europaischen Union an Bedeutung gewonnen. In theoretischer Hinsicht gilt eine hohe Sychronisation der … Koordinierung der Lohnverhandlungen sowie der Steuern auf Arbeit sind wichtige Determinanten für eine grössere Ähnlichkeit der … Zyklen. Gleichartige Reformen hinsichtlich der Koordinierung der Lohnverhandlungen, der Lohnersatzraten sowie der Steuern auf …
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