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