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Do works councils inhibit investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2005
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … (favorable) impact on investment. …
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Determinants of trade union membership
Schnabel, Claus - 2002
's decision to unionise (such as social custom theory). A review of the international empirical evidence shows that business cycle …
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Determinants of trade union membership
Schnabel, Claus - 2002
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On regional differences in unionization
Genosko, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus - 1990
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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? : first evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008
; exporter wage premium ; Germany …
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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms : a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany
Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Kohaut, Susanne (contributor) - 2008
while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six … years was the best strategy. -- employment ; unemployment ; newly founded firma ; linked employer-employee data ; Germany …
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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? : first evidence from German employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than nonexporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
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Union membership and age : the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …
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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions
Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...
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