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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
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Workers, Firms, or Institutions: What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - 2008
We examine job durations of German workers using linked employer-employee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298698
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298998
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Coordination and organization: The two dimensions of nonliberal capitalism
Höpner, Martin - 2007
This paper suggests a two-dimensional concept of nonliberal capitalism: coordinated capitalism (as described in the varieties of capitalism framework) and organized capitalism. While the coordination function of institutions canalizes individual maximization strategies of firms in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300645
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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/10010302617
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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/10010303638
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Corporate governance in transition: Ten empirical findings on shareholder value and industrial relations in Germany
Höpner, Martin - 2001
Within the context of debates over national varieties of capitalism, this paper discusses the shareholder value orientation of the 40 largest listed German companies. Three dimensions of shareholder value are distinguished: the communicative dimension, the operative dimension and the dimension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303877
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Heterogeneity versus homogeneity? Transformation of wage relations of the French and the German public telephone operators: The case of directory inquiry services
Georges, Isabel - 1998
Dieser Artikel über den Einfluß der Privatisierung auf die Arbeitsbeziehungen in der französischen und in der deutschen … über die Auswirkungen der Transformation des sozio-ökonomischen Umfeldes auf die Arbeitsbeziehungen von Telefonisten …/innen. Der Vergleich umfaßt mehrere lokale Auskunftstellen (5 in Frankreich und 5 in Deutschland), die in verschiedenen Regionen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304082
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The origins of bank-based and market-based financial systems: Germany, Japan, and the United States
Vitols, Sigurt - 2001
In dem Papier werden die historischen Ursprünge des bankenbasierten Finanzsystems in Deutschland und Japan und des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304110
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The political economy of EMU: rethinking the effects of monetary integration on Europe
Soskice, David - 1999
How will EMU influence the European political economy? This paper argues that most of the likely alternatives are unsustainable for at least some of the EMU member-states. As a result, the Stability Pact imposed by the Kohl government and the Bundesbank is likely to be rejected by other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304118