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This paper examines how corporate governance reporting corresponds to actual conduct regarding severance payment caps for prematurely departing members of companies' executive boards in Germany. For this purpose, we first evaluate the declarations of conformity for all companies listed in the...
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This paper examines how corporate governance reporting corresponds to actual conduct regarding severance payment caps for prematurely departing members of companies' executive boards in Germany. For this purpose, we first evaluate the declarations of conformity for all companies listed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055931
respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …'s employment protection system. Also, provisions should be made to allow for a higher degree of wage flexibility across …
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Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance payments after those dismissals which stem from plant closings, the incidence of a works council is...
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Der Forschungsbericht befasst sich mit der Neuausrichtung der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumente, die zum 1. Januar 2009 in Kraft getreten ist. Der Gesetzgeber verfolgte mit dieser Reform das Ziel, das Portfolio an Instrumenten zu straffen und damit transparenter und übersichtlicher zu...
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Using the introduction of fixed long-term unemployment benefits in Germany in 2005 as a unique experiment we find strong evidence that lower unemployment benefit has an adverse effect on wages. We use panel data to identify and estimate the effect of this structural break. In western Germany the...
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Löhne und gesetzliche Rentenansprüche sind über das Sozialversicherungssystem direkt miteinander verbunden. In dieser Dissertationsschrift werden zunächst Lohnrisiken analysiert, um dann das Altersarmutsrisiko in Deutschland aufzuzeigen. Nach einer Einführung werden in Kapitel 2 die...
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We examine the impact of active and passive labor market policies expenditures on the probability of re-employment, re-employment … duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … contrast to passive labor market policies, investing in active labor market policies increases the re-employment probability …
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employment, at least at the company-level. The existence of profit sharing - implemented in roughly one in four companies … stock up the short-time working allowances that the workers receive by the employment agencies. The suspension of originally …
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respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …'s employment protection system. Also, provisions should be made to allow for a higher degree of wage flexibility across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444203