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Trade union membership in Eastern and Western Germany: convergence or divergence?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals' probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

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German works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...

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The course of research into the economic consequences of German works councils

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent survey, Frege (2002) concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a `dead end´. The present treatment offers a different conclusion based on a more encompassing review of the evidence. It will identify three distinct phases in the economic analysis of...

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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; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes für Deutschland verfolgen wir Betriebe, die anfangen zu exportieren, über die Zeit. Wir zeigen, dass der …

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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms: a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2008

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasiparity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...

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Low-wage careers: are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?

Mosthaf, Alexander; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2010

Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003....

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The institutional context of an "empirical law": the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

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Women move differently: Job separations and gender

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

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