Discussion Papers

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130: The demise of works councils in Germany

Susanne Kohaut and Claus Schnabel

129: Patterns of regional firm mobility in Germany

Tim Kovalenko and Benedikt Schröpf

128: Unionization of retired workers in Europe

Vinzenz Pyka and Claus Schnabel

127: When are employers interested in electronic performance monitoring? Results from a factorial survey experiment

Luisa Wieser, Martin Abraham, Claus Schnabel, Cornelia Niessen and Mauren Wolff

126: The fall and rebound of average establishment size in West Germany

Tim Kovalenko, Timo Sauerbier and Benedikt Schröpf

125: Is there a union wage premium in Germany and which workers benefit most?

Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer and Claus Schnabel

124: Economic complexity and environmental pollution: Evidence from the former socialist transition countries

Florian Bucher, Lucas Scheu and Benedikt Schröpf

123: Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining: Who are they and how do they fare?

Boris Hirsch, Philipp Lentge and Claus Schnabel

122: Sector switching in Germany

Stephanie Prümer

121: Personnel adjustments during the Covid-19 pandemic: Did co-determination make a difference?

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel and Jens Stegmaier

120: The dynamics of wage dispersion between firms: The role of firm entry and exit

Benedikt Schröpf

119: Uncertainty shocks and employment fluctuations in Germany: The role of establishment size

Tim Kovalenko

118: Digging into the digital divide: Workers' exposure to digitalization and its consequences for individual employment

Sabrina Genz and Claus Schnabel

117: The COVID-19 pandemic: A threat to higher education?

Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer and Carolina Castagnetti

116: Does it pay to go public? Understanding the public-private sector wage gap in Germany

Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Carolina Castagnetti and Stephanie Prümer

115: Cyclical dynamics and the gender pay gap: A structural VAR approach

Tim Kovalenko and Marina Töpfer

114: Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? Discordant evidence from Germany

Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel and Marina Töpfer

113: Union membership and collective bargaining: Trends and determinants

Claus Schnabel

112: Does working at a start-up pay off?

Daniel Fackler, Lisa Hölscher, Claus Schnabel and Antje Weyh

111: The gender pay gap revisited: Does machine learning offer new insights?

Stephanie Brieland and Marina Töpfer

110: Owners, external managers, and industrial relations in German establishments

Arnd Kölling and Claus Schnabel

109: The role of job satisfaction and local labor market conditions for the dissolution of worker-job matches

Tina Hinz and Daniel S. J. Lechmann

108: Questioning the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" absence from work in the public and private sector in Germany

Stephanie Prümer and Claus Schnabel

107: Ist der Staat der bessere Arbeitgeber? Arbeitsqualität im Öffentlichen und Privaten Sektor in Deutschland

Stephanie Prümer

106: Employment adjustments following rises and reductions in minimum wages: New insights from a survey experiment

Mario Bossler, Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

105: The age pay gap and labor market heterogeneity: A new empirical approach using data for Italy

Marina Töpfer

104: Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Daniel Fackler, Michaela Fuchs, Lisa Hölscher and Claus Schnabel

103: Discriminate me - if you can! The disappearance of the gender pay gap among public-contest selected employees

Carolina Castagnetti, Luisa Rosti and Marina Töpfer

102: The German model of industrial relations: (Where) does it still exist?

Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

101: Estimating labor supply in self-employment: Pitfalls and resolutions

Daniel S. J. Lechmann

100: Does early child care attendance influence children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill development?

Daniel Kuehnle and Michael Oberfichtner

99: Personnel policy adjustments when apprentice positions are unfilled: Evidence from German establishment data

Tina Hinz

98: The dynamics of solo self-employment: Persistence and transition to employership

Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Christoph Wunder

97: The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn and Michael Oberfichtner

96: Coming to work while sick: An economic theory of presenteeism with an application to German data

Boris Hirsch, Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

95: United, yet apart? A note on persistent labour market differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Claus Schnabel

94: The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination

Boris Hirsch, Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

93: Der Einfluss von Arbeitslosigkeit der Ehemänner auf die Zeitallokation von Paaren

Thorsten Konietzko

92: Centralized vs. decentralized wage formation: The role of firms' production technology

Boris Hirsch, Christian Merkl, Steffen Mueller and Claus Schnabel

91: The employment effect of deregulating shopping hours: Evidence from German retailing

Mario Bossler and Michael Oberfichtner

90: Establishment survival in East and West Germany: A comparative analysis

Daniel Fackler

89: The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn and Claus Schnabel

88: How selective are real wage cuts? A micro-analysis using linked employer-employee data

Boris Hirsch and Thomas Zwick

87: Absence from work of the self-employed: A comparison with paid employees

Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

86: Can working conditions explain the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle?

Daniel S. J. Lechmann

85: Wage posting or wage bargaining? Evidence from the employers' side

Hanna Brenzel, Hermann Gartner and Claus Schnabel

84: Survival of spinoffs and other startups: First evidence for the private sector in Germany, 1976-2008

Daniel Fackler and Claus Schnabel

83: Works council introductions: Do they reflect workers' voice?

Michael Oberfichtner

82: Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

81: Union membership and density: Some (not so) stylized facts and challenges

Claus Schnabel