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Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …
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Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the “jack-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (Am Econ Rev 94(2): 208–211, <CitationRef CitationID="CR27">2004</CitationRef>). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform...</citationref>
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J31, J71 </AbstractSection> Copyright Lechmann and Schnabel; licensee Springer. 2012
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setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …
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find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …
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Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
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Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage bargaining and wage posting in the matching process from the employers' side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with more than one-third of...
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results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …
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Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …
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