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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
422 John T. Addison
Lutz Bellmann
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act
German law guaranteeing works councils is not a datum. The thrust of legislation has changed significantly on a number of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2004, 43 (2), 392-420)
J24, J53, J58, K31
421 Paola Manzini
Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder
In many kinds of bilateral negotiations the resolution of the issues at stake has an impact which extends beyond the remits of the parties directly involved (e.g. labour negotiations in sectors of ...
(fully revised version with Clara Ponsati published in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2005, 50 (2), 166-180)
C7, D74, J5
420 Åsa Rosén
Etienne Wasmer
Higher Education Levels, Firms' Outside Options and the Wage Structure
We analyze the consequences of an increase in the supply of highly educated workers on relative and real wages in a search model where wages are set by Nash-bargaining. The key insight is that an ...
(published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (4), 621-654)
J31
419 Paul Frijters
John de New
Michael A. Shields
The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction
We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (3), 649-674)
Z1, C23, C25, I31
418 Markus Frölich
Patrick A. Puhani
Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be ...
(published as 'Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification' in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv /Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2004, 88(1), 1-22)
C14, J31, J61, J64, J68
417 Joachim Wagner
Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (3), 255-272)
J23, R12
416 Bruno Crépon
Francis Kramarz
Employed 40 Hours or Not-Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek
We use longitudinal individual wage, hours, and employment data to investigate the effect of the February 1, 1982 mandatory reduction of weekly working hours in France. Just after ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110 (6), 1355-1389)
J31, J23
415 Marianne Bertrand
Francis Kramarz
Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry
Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117 (4), 1369-1414)
J23, L43, L81
414 Anders Frederiksen
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Where Did They Go?
We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 811-828)
J63, J65, E24
413 Holger Bonin
Rob Euwals
Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification
The paper studies the determinants of labor force participation by East German women after unification. To isolate the role of preferences on labor force participation from individual ...
(published as 'Why Are Labor Force Participation Rates of East German Women So High?' in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2005, 51(4), 307-322)
C33, J21, J31
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