Laszlo Goerke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1139924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laszlo Goerke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laszlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Goerke |
| SIGNATURE | GOERKE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ifo Institute for Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7621-5054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Councils of contentment: Works councils and income perceptions
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between workplace co-determination in the form of works councils and income satisfaction. Controlling for a wide range of individual, job-related, and firm-level characteristics in OLS and fixed effects specifications, we observe that employees working in establishments with a works council report significantly higher income satisfaction …
Educational Mismatch and Trade Union Membership
We hypothesize that trade unions assist their members in avoiding situations of educational mismatch. We test this hypothesis using data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel and find that trade union membership is negatively associated with overeducation and positively associated with the likelihood of being educationally matched. These correlations are especially pronounced among core groups of members. Our findings suggest that a strong trade u…
The Union Wage Mark‐Up for Immigrants in the United States
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995–2023, we show that unionized immigrants earn 10.1 log points less than unionized natives, of which 4.8 log points are due to a lower union wage mark‐up. Therefore, unionization is beneficial for immigrants but to a lesser extent than for natives in the United States. The difference in the union wage mark‐up between natives and immigrants is most pronounced for males and low‐skilled blue…
Trade union membership and bonus payments: German survey evidence
Minimum wage non-compliance: The role of co-determination
We analyse how co-determination is related to non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory minimum wage. Based on this legal situation, our theoretical model predicts that non-compliance is less likely in co-determined firms because works council…
Man or machine – or something in between? Social responses to voice assistants at work and their effects on job satisfaction
Informational rents and the excessive entry theorem: The case of hidden action
Entry in a homogeneous Cournot‐oligopoly is excessive if there is business‐stealing. These findings assume that production costs reduce profits and welfare equally. If firms pay informational rents due to frictions in the employer–employee relationship, production costs partly reflect transfers, which do not alter welfare directly. We investigate the excessive entry theorem in the presence of rents. We find that informational rents can invalidate…
Seeking shelter in times of crisis? unemployment, perceived job insecurity and trade union membership
Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers decide individually on their membership. We analyse whether exogenously manipulated perceptions of job insecurity encourage individuals to join a trade union. Firm‐level workforce reductions serve as the first …
A political economy perspective on horizontal FDI in a dynamic Cournot-oligopoly with endogenous entry
Trade unions and corporate social responsibility
Trade unions distort a profit‐maximizing firm's input choice. The nature of the resulting inefficiency depends on whether there are wage negotiations or there is efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby affect welfare. If firms also pursue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objectives, input choices may be distorted already in the absence of collective bargaining. Adopting a positive perspective, we show tha…
The one constant: A causal effect of collective bargaining on employment growth? Evidence from German linked‐employer‐employee data
A large number of articles have analysed ‘the one constant’ in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by 2–4% points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo‐Saxon countries. We investigate whether a different institutional setting might lead to a different outcome, making the constant a variable entity. Using linked‐employer‐employee data for Germany, we find a negative co…
Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If t…
Tax evasion and competition
Using a C ournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, we show that more intense competition may have the negative side effect of increasing tax evasion, thereby, lowering public revenues and welfare. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar result will hold if marginal production costs fall and demand is either weakly concave, or convex and inelastic. The result of more competiti…
A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits
Redundancy Pay and Collective Dismissals
Redundancy payments for collective dismissals are incorporated into a Shapiro-Stiglitz model of efficiency wages. It is shown that a lump-sum payment will lower wages, leaving employment and welfare unaffected if there are neither wage-dependent taxes nor additional firing costs. If payroll taxes exceed firing costs, employment and welfare will rise with redundancy payments. If these payments are also a function of previous wages or reduce unempl…
Bismarck versus Beveridge: Flat-Rate and Earnings-Related Unemployment Insurance in a General Efficiency Wage Framework
A higher unemployment compensation reduces the incentives to provide effort in efficiency wage models. If there is a stronger dependence of unemployment benefits on current earnings, these incentives will be strengthened and efficiency wages can be lowered. An unemployment insurance with earnings-related benefits is thus characterised by higher employment than one with flat-rate benefits. The paper investigates under which conditions this advanta…
Taxes on Payroll and Revenues in Labour Demand Curve Models—A Supplement
Labour Markets in Europe: Issues in Harmonization and Regulation
Taxes on Payroll, Revenues and Profits in Three Models of Collective Bargaining
Variations in company taxes are analysed for a right‐to‐manage model, an efficient bargaining setting and a seniority approach. Taxes cannot be shifted forward by the risk‐neutral firm. Alternative income and bargaining power are allowed to vary with taxes. Employing asymmetric Nash solution it is found that changes in a payroll, revenue or profit tax can have differing implications for labour demand curve models and efficient bargaining solution…
Introduction of long‐term care insurance in Germany: An economic interpretation
This paper analyses the introduction of long‐term care insurance in Germany and provides an overview of some of the main arguments. It focuses on economic aspects of the new scheme, namely its impact on efficiency, distribution and employment as well as government budgets. The new insurance is suboptimal on a number of dimensions but not clearly inferior to an alternative discussed in the literature
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Health manpower
Health manpower. L S GoerkeCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.56.8.1189 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Utilization, recruitment, and training of health manpower
Utilization, recruitment, and training of health manpower. L S GoerkeCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.55.10.1511 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Health and Urban Development: III. The Relationship of Health Agencies and Planning Agencies
Health and Urban Development III. The Relationship of Health Agencies and Planning Agencies L. S. GoerkeM.D.F.A.P.H.A. CopyRightDr. Goerke is dean, School of Public Health, and chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.54.5.713 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Factor of Institutional Living in the Nation's Health
The Factor of Institutional Living in the Nation's Health L. S. Goerke CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.51.4.517 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The one constant: A causal effect of collective bargaining on employment growth? Evidence from German linked‐employer‐employee data
A large number of articles have analysed ‘the one constant’ in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by 2–4% points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo‐Saxon countries. We investigate whether a different institutional setting might lead to a different outcome, making the constant a variable entity. Using linked‐employer‐employee data for Germany, we find a negative co…
Tax evasion and competition
Using a C ournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, we show that more intense competition may have the negative side effect of increasing tax evasion, thereby, lowering public revenues and welfare. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar result will hold if marginal production costs fall and demand is either weakly concave, or convex and inelastic. The result of more competiti…
Introduction of long‐term care insurance in Germany: An economic interpretation
This paper analyses the introduction of long‐term care insurance in Germany and provides an overview of some of the main arguments. It focuses on economic aspects of the new scheme, namely its impact on efficiency, distribution and employment as well as government budgets. The new insurance is suboptimal on a number of dimensions but not clearly inferior to an alternative discussed in the literature
Trade unions and corporate social responsibility
Trade unions distort a profit‐maximizing firm's input choice. The nature of the resulting inefficiency depends on whether there are wage negotiations or there is efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby affect welfare. If firms also pursue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objectives, input choices may be distorted already in the absence of collective bargaining. Adopting a positive perspective, we show tha…
A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits
Taxes on Payroll, Revenues and Profits in Three Models of Collective Bargaining
Variations in company taxes are analysed for a right‐to‐manage model, an efficient bargaining setting and a seniority approach. Taxes cannot be shifted forward by the risk‐neutral firm. Alternative income and bargaining power are allowed to vary with taxes. Employing asymmetric Nash solution it is found that changes in a payroll, revenue or profit tax can have differing implications for labour demand curve models and efficient bargaining solution…
IV. The Clinical Status of a Population Group in Los Angeles Under Observation for Two to Three Years
IV. The Clinical Status of a Population Group in Los Angeles Under Observation for Two to Three Years Affiliation John M. Chapman, L. S. Goerke, Wilfrid Dixon, Donald B. Loveland, and Edward Phillips CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.47.4_Pt_2.33 Published Online: October 03, 2011
The Factor of Institutional Living in the Nation's Health
The Factor of Institutional Living in the Nation's Health L. S. Goerke CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.51.4.517 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Health and Urban Development: III. The Relationship of Health Agencies and Planning Agencies
Health and Urban Development III. The Relationship of Health Agencies and Planning Agencies L. S. GoerkeM.D.F.A.P.H.A. CopyRightDr. Goerke is dean, School of Public Health, and chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.54.5.713 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Utilization, recruitment, and training of health manpower
Utilization, recruitment, and training of health manpower. L S GoerkeCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.55.10.1511 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Health manpower
Health manpower. L S GoerkeCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.56.8.1189 Published Online: August 29, 2011
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Taxes on Payroll, Revenues and Profits in Three Models of Collective Bargaining
Variations in company taxes are analysed for a right‐to‐manage model, an efficient bargaining setting and a seniority approach. Taxes cannot be shifted forward by the risk‐neutral firm. Alternative income and bargaining power are allowed to vary with taxes. Employing asymmetric Nash solution it is found that changes in a payroll, revenue or profit tax can have differing implications for labour demand curve models and efficient bargaining solution…
Introduction of long‐term care insurance in Germany: An economic interpretation
This paper analyses the introduction of long‐term care insurance in Germany and provides an overview of some of the main arguments. It focuses on economic aspects of the new scheme, namely its impact on efficiency, distribution and employment as well as government budgets. The new insurance is suboptimal on a number of dimensions but not clearly inferior to an alternative discussed in the literature
Taxes on Payroll and Revenues in Labour Demand Curve Models—A Supplement
Labour Markets in Europe: Issues in Harmonization and Regulation
Bismarck versus Beveridge: Flat-Rate and Earnings-Related Unemployment Insurance in a General Efficiency Wage Framework
A higher unemployment compensation reduces the incentives to provide effort in efficiency wage models. If there is a stronger dependence of unemployment benefits on current earnings, these incentives will be strengthened and efficiency wages can be lowered. An unemployment insurance with earnings-related benefits is thus characterised by higher employment than one with flat-rate benefits. The paper investigates under which conditions this advanta…
Redundancy Pay and Collective Dismissals
Redundancy payments for collective dismissals are incorporated into a Shapiro-Stiglitz model of efficiency wages. It is shown that a lump-sum payment will lower wages, leaving employment and welfare unaffected if there are neither wage-dependent taxes nor additional firing costs. If payroll taxes exceed firing costs, employment and welfare will rise with redundancy payments. If these payments are also a function of previous wages or reduce unempl…
A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits
Tax evasion and competition
Using a C ournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, we show that more intense competition may have the negative side effect of increasing tax evasion, thereby, lowering public revenues and welfare. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar result will hold if marginal production costs fall and demand is either weakly concave, or convex and inelastic. The result of more competiti…
Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If t…
The one constant: A causal effect of collective bargaining on employment growth? Evidence from German linked‐employer‐employee data
A large number of articles have analysed ‘the one constant’ in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by 2–4% points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo‐Saxon countries. We investigate whether a different institutional setting might lead to a different outcome, making the constant a variable entity. Using linked‐employer‐employee data for Germany, we find a negative co…
A political economy perspective on horizontal FDI in a dynamic Cournot-oligopoly with endogenous entry
Trade unions and corporate social responsibility
Trade unions distort a profit‐maximizing firm's input choice. The nature of the resulting inefficiency depends on whether there are wage negotiations or there is efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby affect welfare. If firms also pursue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objectives, input choices may be distorted already in the absence of collective bargaining. Adopting a positive perspective, we show tha…
Man or machine – or something in between? Social responses to voice assistants at work and their effects on job satisfaction
Informational rents and the excessive entry theorem: The case of hidden action
Entry in a homogeneous Cournot‐oligopoly is excessive if there is business‐stealing. These findings assume that production costs reduce profits and welfare equally. If firms pay informational rents due to frictions in the employer–employee relationship, production costs partly reflect transfers, which do not alter welfare directly. We investigate the excessive entry theorem in the presence of rents. We find that informational rents can invalidate…
Seeking shelter in times of crisis? unemployment, perceived job insecurity and trade union membership
Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers decide individually on their membership. We analyse whether exogenously manipulated perceptions of job insecurity encourage individuals to join a trade union. Firm‐level workforce reductions serve as the first …
Minimum wage non-compliance: The role of co-determination
We analyse how co-determination is related to non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory minimum wage. Based on this legal situation, our theoretical model predicts that non-compliance is less likely in co-determined firms because works council…
Councils of contentment: Works councils and income perceptions
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide a comprehensive investigation of the relationship between workplace co-determination in the form of works councils and income satisfaction. Controlling for a wide range of individual, job-related, and firm-level characteristics in OLS and fixed effects specifications, we observe that employees working in establishments with a works council report significantly higher income satisfaction …
Educational Mismatch and Trade Union Membership
We hypothesize that trade unions assist their members in avoiding situations of educational mismatch. We test this hypothesis using data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel and find that trade union membership is negatively associated with overeducation and positively associated with the likelihood of being educationally matched. These correlations are especially pronounced among core groups of members. Our findings suggest that a strong trade u…
The Union Wage Mark‐Up for Immigrants in the United States
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995–2023, we show that unionized immigrants earn 10.1 log points less than unionized natives, of which 4.8 log points are due to a lower union wage mark‐up. Therefore, unionization is beneficial for immigrants but to a lesser extent than for natives in the United States. The difference in the union wage mark‐up between natives and immigrants is most pronounced for males and low‐skilled blue…
Economics (17 works) · Labour economics (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (8 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Macroeconomics (6 works) · Wage (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Merger and Competition Analysis (5 works)