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Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?

Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in the Netherlands. We find that workers in these particular subindustries of …

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … 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 cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …

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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Heitmueller, Axel; Mavromaras, Kostas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper studies the public-private pay gap in the fast changing economic and political environment of the...

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