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inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … company employment practices where we can observe growing reliance on mechanisms of internal flexibility for the skilled core …
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Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
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inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … company employment practices where we can observe growing reliance on mechanisms of internal flexibility for the skilled core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196413
version of the basic file covers now the years 1975 to 1995 and contains for the first time information on Eastern Germany for …
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substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility …
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Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
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Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …
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In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...
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In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...
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for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …
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