Does skill shortage pay off for nursing staff in Germany? Wage premiums for hiring problems, industrial relations, and profitability

Arnd Kölling

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Abstract: This study investigates the impact of hiring problems, industrial relations at the workplace and profitability on compensation and wage premia for nursing staff in Germany. Based on Mincer-type earnings functions and a large linked-employee dataset, regressions with unobserved individual and firm-specific fixed effects are estimated. The econometric analysis shows that firms with staffing problems pay a wage premium of about 4 to 5% for nurses. However, this only holds for firms that do not have a works council and/or are not profitable. Here, the wage premium for staffing is paid at the expense of previous premiums for co-determination at the workplace or rent sharing. These premiums are significantly reduced or eliminated due to better outside options. Overall, the pay increases for nurses in firms with staffing problems. Nevertheless, this does not apply to all skilled workers in Germany.

Keywords: Shortage of skilled labor; works councils; wage premium; nurses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 J52 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02-02
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