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During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governancenorm in much of the U …
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Die verbreitete Vorstellung, bei den Arbeitsplätzen in Call Centern handele es sich durchgängig um unqualifizierte und schlecht bezahlte Jobs, die oftmals mit Studierenden besetzt sind, entspricht nicht der Realität. Vielmehr sind die Arbeits- und Entlohnungsbedingungen sehr unterschiedlich.(...)
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The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organizationon job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel(GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of thetype of working contract...
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...
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Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low-skilled workers. The present paper argues that an extended Right-to-Manage model can account for both of these findings. In this model unions compress the wage distribution by...
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Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as the slide into the Great Depression after...
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sector controlling for a full range ofindividual, job and workplace characteristics... …
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Existing work on wage bargaining (as exemplified by Cukierman and Lippi, 2001) typicallypredicts more aggressive wage setting under monetary union. This insight has not beenconfirmed by the EMU experience, which has been characterised by wage moderation,thereby eliciting criticism from Posen and...
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Im Jahr der Fußballeuropameisterschaft wirdgerne an das legendäre Zitat des DortmunderFußballidols Adi Preißler aus der frühen Nachkriegszeiterinnert: „Grau ist alle Theorie, entscheidendist auf‘m Platz.“ Und nicht nur dieFußballkennerinnen und -kenner aus demRuhrgebiet wissen, was...
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Der aktuell zu beobachtende rapide Aufschwungder Zeit- bzw. Leiharbeit1 in Deutschland sorgtderzeit für heftige Kontroversen. Fehlentwicklungoder „neue Normalität“ – zwischen diesen Polenbewegen sich die Argumente und Einschätzungen.Angeheizt wird die Debatte durch...
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