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. …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

Germany from 1980 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce … variables such as age, public sector employment and being a blue collar worker (significant in western Germany only). A … decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and between eastern and western Germany to a large degree …

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …