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The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany : evidence from an establishment panel

Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - 2001

This paper investigates under which conditions firms use fixed-term contracts, subcontracted and freelance work. Using a probit model which accounts for unobserved heterogeneity, we find that positive changes in expected or actual turnover are associated with a higher probability of employing...

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

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Alternative approaches to discrete working time choice in an AGE framework

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Boeters, Stefan (contributor); … - 2005

We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...

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Discrete working time choice in an applied general equilibrium model

Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Fixed-term contracts as sorting mechanisms : evidence from job durations in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor); Hagen, Tobias (contributor) - 2005

We estimate the effect of initial episodes under fixed-term contracts (FTCs) on job duration in the further course of the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially...

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …

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A sequential decomposition of the drop in collective bargaining coverage

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2015

percentage points for females in West, and eight and 14 percentage points, respectively, in East Germany. We find that neither …

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Productivity and distribution effects of codetermination in an efficient bargaining

Kraft, Kornelius - 2017

Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might affect the efficiency of production and the bargaining power of labor. Based on a model that covers both efficient bargaining and employment bargaining a simple equation is...

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Die Arbeitsmarktanalyse in der wirtschaftspolitischen Beratung des Sachverständigenrates

Franz, Wolfgang - 2013

dem Hintergrund der hohen und persistenten Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland in den jeweiligen Jahresgutachten des SVR einen … (GCEE). During the previous decades this topic has taken center stage due to the high and persistent unemployment in Germany …

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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis

Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013

consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany’s trade partners. We check up on …) are only partially driven by the reforms. However, we do not find that the reforms contribute to Germany’s trade surplus …

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