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Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects
Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers with low tenure. While works council monopoly effects show up in all specifications, clear voice...
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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? A statistical Guinea Pig approach
Requate, Till; Göhlmann, Silja; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2006
The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296265
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Does Worksharing Work? Some Empirical Evidence from the IAB Panel
Simmons, R.; Schank, Thorsten; Andrews, Martyn J. - 2004
Recent policy debate in Europe suggests that a shorter workweek will lead to more jobs (worksharing). We derive and estimate a model where the firm employs two types of worker, some working overtime, the rest standard hours. Worksharing is not always a prediction of the theory. Using German...
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Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus : First evidence from linked employer-employee data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004
von kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten-Daten aus Deutschland um zu zeigen, dass diese Lohnzuschläge verschwinden, wenn die …
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Practical estimation methods for linked employer-employee data
Upward, Richard; Schank, Thorsten; J. Andrews, Martyn - 2005
mit einem kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigtendatensatz (LIAB) aus Deutschland veranschaulicht. Es gibt jedoch eine …
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2005
gibt, untersuchen wir, ob dies auch in dem unterschiedlichen institutionellen Umfeld in Deutschland der Fall ist, wo statt …
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The Takeover and Selection Effects of Foreign Ownership in Germany : An Analysis Using Linked Worker-Firm Data
Andrews, Martyn J.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2007
We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in East and West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located in East Germany are also considered. The implemented techniques allow...
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The empirical assessment of technology differences: comparing the comparable
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to...
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
In den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten hat sich die Beschäftigtenstruktur in Deutschland zuungunsten der Un- und Angelernten … Betriebsdaten zusammengefügten Datensatzes, für West-Deutschland (1994-1997) untersucht. Schätzungen der bedingten Arbeitsnachfrage …
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
Kenngrößen wie der Produktivität, der Qualifikationsstruktur und den Löhnen, wobei Mikrodaten für die USA und Deutschland … anhand der Streuung der Produktivität und anderen betrieblichen Entscheidungsvariablen - als in Deutschland. Dies zeigt sich … durchschnittlichen Einfluss der Einführung neuer Technologien auf die Produktivität und die Löhne in den USA als in Deutschland. …
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