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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262910
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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257376
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Is there a union wage premium in Germany and which workers benefit most?
Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Schnabel, Claus - 2023
union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the … union membership fee is typically about one percent of workers' gross wages, this finding suggests that it pays off to be a … union member. Our results show that the wage premium differs substantially between various occupations and educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545636
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Tariflohnpolitik und Effektivlohnfindung : eine empirische und wirtschaftspolitische Analyse für die alten Bundesländer
Schnabel, Claus - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000618092
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Collective bargaining structure and its determinants : an empirical analysis with British and German establishment data
Schnabel, Claus; Zagelmeyer, Stefan; Kohaut, Susanne - In: European journal of industrial relations 12 (2006) 2, pp. 165-188
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003346513
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664995
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696819
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908606
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701993
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Let's take bargaining models seriously : the decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed … results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …. The results show that union power was relatively stable in the 1990s but fell substantially (by almost one-third) from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259899