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Minimum wage non-compliance : the role of co-determination

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023

We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...

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Redundancy pay and collective dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo - 2001

shown that a fixed payment will lower wages, leave employment and welfare unaffected if there are no wage-dependent taxes … firing costs and unemployment benefits are independent of redundancy pay, employment and welfare will rise with redundancy … payments. If these payments are also a function of previous wages, positive employment effects will be mitigated. A …

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Tax progressivity and tax evasion

Goerke, Laszlo - 2003

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this … progressive taxes reduce profits. This induces firms to exit the market such that the positive employment effect can vanish in a … opportunities raise the likelihood of positive employment effects due to higher tax progressivity. …

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Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...

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