Narrow search
Showing 41 - 50 of 672
Cover Image
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269533
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271273
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272104
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274606
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274659
Cover Image
Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312020
Cover Image
Establishment exits in Germany: The role of size and age
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282211
Cover Image
Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282433
Cover Image
What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282549
Cover Image
Establishment exits in Germany: The role of size and age
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286608