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    <title>Opening clauses in collective bargaining agreements: More flexibility to save jobs?</title>
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    <description>Title: Opening clauses in collective bargaining agreements: More flexibility to save jobs?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Brändle, Tobias; Heinbach, Wolf Dieter
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Collective bargaining agreements have been said to decrease deployment since the work of Calmfors and Driffill (1988). We investigate empirically whether opening clauses, flexible elements that have been introduced to reduce the decline in coverage, can indeed minimise this effect and increase job growth in covered firms. Using representative data on German establishments, the IAB Establishment Panel, in combination with data on opening clauses from the IAW, and performing propensity score matching to control for selectivity bias, we find that the existence of opening clauses has significantly negative effects on job destruction rates and that it increases job growth by approximately 0.73% per year. However, it does not seem the case that firms with explicit knowledge of opening clauses anticipate their increased flexibility, since they do not have higher job creation rates. As regards the actual application of opening clauses, our results do not show additional effects.</description>
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    <title>Nationality matters: The geographic origin of multinationals and the productivity of their foreign affiliates</title>
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    <description>Title: Nationality matters: The geographic origin of multinationals and the productivity of their foreign affiliates
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Arndt, Christian; Spies, Julia
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this heterogeneity we analyze the impact of various institutional and economic characteristics of the countries in which the multinational parent companies are located on the productivity of their affiliates. Using a full record of the population of foreignowned affiliates in Germany we find that affiliates' mean performances differ markedly when grouped by the country of their parent firm. We show that gravitational forces and institutional characteristics of the country of the parent, such as the availability of credit and the freedom to trade internationally, co-determine the foreign-owned affiliates' performances in a significant way. Moreover, the intensity of the impact depends on the intensity of the ownership link between the parent and its affiliate. Some residual impact of nationality remains.</description>
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    <title>An almost ideal wage database harmonizing the ILO October Inquiry</title>
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    <description>Title: An almost ideal wage database harmonizing the ILO October Inquiry
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Harsch, Daniela; Kleinert, Jörn
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The lack of comprehensive, international comparable wage data has been deplored for decades and has constrained the empirical analysis of wage growth and inequality. This is the case although, since 1924, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has conducted an October Inquiry to obtain data on wages worldwide, which leads to an annual wage survey containing data for 161 occupations in over 130 countries. Freeman and Oostendorp (2000) have started a novel project to make use of the October Inquiry, which we update. We provide a documentation about the several steps taken to transfer the data into a comparable and usable form. The data allow analyzing wage growth and inequality in a comprehensive way. In this paper, we describe the way we converted the data and present some results on developments in the wage structure between and within countries and occupations.</description>
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    <title>Disclosure risk from interactions and saturated models in remote access</title>
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    <description>Title: Disclosure risk from interactions and saturated models in remote access
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Ronning, Gerd
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Empirical research using micro data via remote access has been advocated in recent time by statistical offices since confidentiality is easier warranted for this approach. However, disclosure of single values and units cannot be completely avoided. Binary regressors (dummy variables) bear a high risk of disclosure, especially if their interactions are considered as it is done by definition in saturated models. However, contrary to views expressed in earlier publications the risk is only existing if besides parameter estimates also predicted values are reported to the researcher. The paper considers saturated specifications of the most popular linear and nonlinear microeconometric models and shows that in all cases the disclosure risk is high if some design points are represented by a (very) small number of observations. For two of the models not belonging to the exponential family (probit model and negative binomial regression model) we show that the same estimates of the conditional expectations arise here although the parameter estimates are defined by a modified equation. In the last section we draw attention to the fact that interaction of binary regressors can be used to construct strategic dummy variableswhich lead to hight disclosure risk as shown, for example, in Bleninger et al. (2010) for the linear model. In this paper we extend the analysis to the set of established nonlinear models, in particular logit, probit and count data models.</description>
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