Gender, piece rates and wages: evidence from matched employer-employee data (2004)
Why are women disproportionately on piece rates? We investigate three possible explanations: (1) Women are more likely to be on piece rates, because they have a shorter expected tenure than men. (2)...
"Against the background of theoretical considerations and available empirical studies, the expected effects of the amendment to the Law on Labour Relations at the Workplace...
Jirjahn, Uwe, Kraft, Kornelius
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the...
Mikroökonomische Beschäftigungseffekte des Hamburger Modells zur Beschäftigungsförderung
Jirjahn, Uwe, Pfeifer, Christian, Tsertsvadze, Georgi
"Das Hamburger Modell zur Beschäftigungsförderung zielt darauf ab, Arbeitslose mit geringen Verdienstmöglichkeiten und schlechten Arbeitsmarktchancen durch zeitlich befristete Zuschüsse, die...
Variable Payment Schemes and Industrial Relations: Evidence from Germany.
Heywood, John S, Hubler, Olaf, Jirjahn, Uwe
This paper examines the empirical determinants of piece rates and profit sharing schemes. Establishment data from Germany confirm the importance of industrial relations climate. The presence of...
"The article explores the question of how the German wage agreement system influences the works councils’ effects on company efficiency and on the company wage level. On the one hand, an overview...
Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages
This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main...
We argue that firms with interdependent worker productivity, team production, have a higher cost of absence and, as a consequence, spend additional resources on monitoring absence. As a result, firms...
Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages
This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a bargaining model, we derive our main hypothesis: In...
"On the basis of establishment data for the manufacturing industry in Lower Saxony this article combines two research approaches which have so far been dealt with separately to a large extent in...
Works Councils and Environmental Investment: Theory and Evidence from German Panel Data
Askildsen, Jan Erik, Jirjahn, Uwe, Smith, Stephen C.
Firms may underinvest in local environmental protection even from the private viewpoint of its owners and employees, but works councils may help mitigate this problem. We show that increases in...
On the Determinants of Shift Work and Overtime Work: Evidence from German Establishment Data
Using data from German manufacturing establishments, this article examines the empirical determinants of shift work and overtime. Technology and the organization of work, the managerial environment,...
Teamwork and Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion among Blue-Collar Workers
Jirjahn, Uwe, Kraft, Kornelius
Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is associated with increased intra-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled...
Payment schemes and gender in Germany.
The authors estimate the determinants of five types of variable payment schemes using panel data on German establishments in 1994 and 1996. Women were disproportionately included in schemes based on...
Payment schemes and gender in Germany.
The authors estimate the determinants of five types of variable payment schemes using panel data on German establishments in 1994 and 1996. Women were disproportionately included in schemes based on...
Intra-firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance - Is There a Uniform Relationship?
Empirical studies examining the impact of intra-firm wage dispersion on firm performance report extremely mixed results. Yet, almost all of the studies implicitly assume that there is a uniform...
Getting along with Colleagues - Does Profit Sharing Help or Hurt?
John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Georgi Tsertsvadze
Theory presents two channels through which profit sharing can cause workers to increase their coworkers' productivity: greater cooperation and increased peer pressure. This paper argues that these...
A Note on Efficiency Wage Theory and Principal-Agent Theory
Why are principal-agent models used in some circumstances and efficiency wage models in others? In this note, it is argued that efficiency wages provide incentives based on an evaluation of the...
Does profit sharing reduce conflict with the boss? Evidence from Germany
John Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Georgi Tsertsvadze
This paper argues that, in general, profit sharing aligns the interests of workers and the firm and that this alignment reduces the extent of conflict between workers and management. This paper also...
Gender, piece rates and wages: evidence from matched employer--employee data
Why are women disproportionately on piece rates? We investigate three possible explanations: (1) Women are more likely to be on piece rates, because they have a shorter expected tenure than men. (2)...
Performance Pay, Risk Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
Thomas Cornelißen, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
We present a sorting model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move into performance pay jobs and contrast it with the classic agency model of performance pay. Estimates...
Wer ist bereit Studiengebühren zu zahlen?
This paper uses a survey of students in economics and business administration at the University of Hannover and the University of Regensburg. We examine students’ hypothetical responses to the...
Neuere oekonometrische Untersuchungen zeichnen ein neutrales bis positives Bild der oekonomischen Konsequenzen betrieblicher Mitbestimmung. Demgegenueber gelangt ein Beitrag von Addison und Teixeira...
Works Councils and Employment Growth: - A Reply to Addison and Teixeira
In this reply, I argue that Addison and Teixeira’s rejoinder to my study is characteristically misleading and erroneous. While the authors agree that my investigation is interesting in its own...
Teamwork, monitoring and absence
Heywood, John S., Jirjahn, Uwe, Wei, Xiangdong
We present a model showing that firms with interdependent worker productivity (team production) have a higher cost of absence and as a consequence will spend additional resources on monitoring...
Betriebsräte und Arbeitszufriedenheit
Uwe Jirjahn, Georgi Tsertsvadze
Empirical studies on establishment-level codetermination usually focus on the impact of works councils on firm performance. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this is the first...
Class size, student performance and Tiebout bias
Uwe Jirjahn, Christian Pfeifer, Georgi Tsertsvadze
If students tend to choose instructors with high teaching ability, a negative link between class size and student performance may remain obscured until this kind of sorting has been taken into...
The Introduction of Works Councils in German Establishments - Rent Seeking or Rent Protection?
Some recent empirical studies seem to suggest that German works councils engage in rent-seeking activities rather than in the creation of joint establishment surplus. However, those cross-sectional...
Profit sharing and firm size: The role of team production
Heywood, John S., Jirjahn, Uwe
This paper presents a model showing that profit sharing is subject to the 1/N problem in the case of independent worker productivity but not in the case of interdependent worker productivity. This...
Works Councils and Learning: On the Dynamic Dimension of Codetermination
Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser, Uschi Backes-Gellner
This study provides the first econometric analysis on the dynamic dimension of establishment-level codetermination in Germany. We hypothesize that learning implies a change in the nature and scope of...