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More female manager hires through more female managers? : evidence from Germany

Bossler, Mario; Mosthaf, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten - 2016

This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the past hiring decisions of an establishment. Using...

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Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? : microeconomic evidence

Andrews, Martyn J.; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - 2015

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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.

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Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? : microeconomic evidence

Andrews, Martyn J.; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - 2015

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large...

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Betriebliche Determinanten des Überstundeneinsatzes

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2004

establishments in western Germany made use of paid overtime work, recording 1.6 overtime hours per employee and week on average …

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German works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...

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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation : micro evidence from Germany und the US

Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; Schank, Thorsten - 2003

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … Kenngrößen wie der Produktivität, der Qualifikationsstruktur und den Löhnen, wobei Mikrodaten für die USA und Deutschland …

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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure

Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002

During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the … low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a … unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany. Estimation results of the conditional labour demand for three …

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Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction

Bossler, Mario; Schank, Thorsten - 2020

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …

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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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