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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264999
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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268721
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Who are the workers who never joined a union? Empirical evidence from Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus - 2005
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 … Nie-Mitgliedschaft in deutschen Gewerkschaften. Wir zeigen, dass 54 bis 59 Prozent aller Beschäftigten in Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297210
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Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany … gewerkschaftlicher Stärke her und berechnen ihn mit Jahresdaten für Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306814
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Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany … gewerkschaftlicher Stäarke her und berechnen ihn mit Jahresdaten für Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306815
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Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003
Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262095
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Who are the workers who never joined a union? Empirical evidence from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267518
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Tax Evasion in a Unionised Economy
Goerke, Laszlo - 2001
In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262587
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Interessenvertretung in globalen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken - Theoretische Perspektiven und empirische Befunde
Lohmeyer, Nora; Sydow, Jörg - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 28 (2021) 2, pp. 103-119
Globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke haben als Organisationsform ökonomischer Aktivitäten in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Zurückgeblieben ist demgegenüber trotz der massiven Betroffenheit vieler Interessengruppen - nicht nur, aber besonders der Beschäftigten -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438710
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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: Threats and bargaining
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480363