"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

"Since 1993 the IAB has maintained a representative information system of the demand side of the labour market in the form of its establishment panel for western Germany. With the inclusion of the new federal states in 1996, the formation of the IAB panel was completed in the whole of Germany....

"This paper deals with company expectations for 1997 with regard to employment. For this, details from the IAB establishment panel are examined separately for East (1st wave) and West (4th wave) with the aid of descriptive and multivariate methods. It can be seen that companies of individual...

"The relationship between the dynamics of employment on the one side and hirings and separations on the other side is crucial for the dynamics of unemployment and the labour market response to recessions. Although the average level of hiring and separation is much lower in Germany than in the...

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union differential based on separate samples of collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the...

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...

Mit einem einheitlichen Erhebungsbogen für die Betriebe aller Betriebsgrößen und Branchen startete im Sommer 1993 die erste Welle des "IAB-Betriebspanels". Der Rücklauf betrug 71%. Aus den ersten Querschnittsauswertungen ergeben sich die folgenden Eckdaten: - Die westdeutsche Wirtschaft...