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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435269
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427309
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431785
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432479
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The one constant : a causal effect of collective bargaining on employment growth?
Brändle, Tobias; Goerke, Laszlo - 2018
collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related … between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining agreement or firm-level contract and employment growth of about one … percentage point per annum. However, the correlation between employment growth and collective bargaining is not robust to the use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859278
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557797
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561099
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402511
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580807
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Thorstein Veblen, Joan Robinson, and George Stigler (probably) never met : social preferences, monopsony, and government intervention
Goerke, Laszlo; Neugart, Michael - 2020
Wages and employment are too low in a monopsony. Furthermore, a minimum wage or a subsidy may raise employment up to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160637