Claus Schnabel
Biographic Data
| ID | 349326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claus Schnabel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claus |
| FAMILY NAME | Schnabel |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNABEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5979-8879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The threat of electronic performance monitoring: Exploring the role of leader-member exchange on employee privacy invasion
Advances in digitalization have led employers to increasingly adopt electronic performance monitoring technologies that allow supervisors to observe, analyze and evaluate not only employees' work activities, but also their cognitive and behavioral data. This has significant implications for employees' perceptions of privacy, and, in turn, for their basic needs, intrinsic motivation, and turnover intentions. However, the extent of perceiving priva…
Unionization of retired workers in Europe
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired workers’ probability of union membership is 17 percentage points lower than that of active workers, with some variation among countries. This finding is co…
Does working at a start-up pay off
Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in labor market performance of workers joining start-ups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and (un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types …
Do Start-ups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers
This article compares the hiring patterns of start-ups and incumbent firms to analyze whether start-ups offer relatively more job opportunities to disadvantaged workers. Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Germany that provide the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers, the authors show that young firms are more likely than incumbents to hire applicants who are older, foreign, or unemployed, or who have unstable…
Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets
This article confronts monopsony theory's predictions regarding workers' wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the years 1985 to 2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, the authors construct a time series of the labor supply elasticity to the firm and estimate its relationship to the unemployment rate. They find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic dow…
United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly in others even 25 years after unification. Whereas no substantial differences can be detected in firms’ labour demand decisions and in employees’ representation via works councils or trade unions, both par…
Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, survival, and the role of their parents
Establishment exits in Germany: The role of size and age
Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane
Journal Article Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane Get access Elke J. Jahn, Elke J. Jahn Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Regina T. Riphahn, Regina T. Riphahn University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claus Schnabel Claus Schnabel University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg Search for ot…
Employment stability in newly founded firms: A matching approach using linked employer–employee data from Germany
Low-Wage Employment Versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?
Do Newly Founded Firms Pay Lower Wages? First Evidence from Germany
Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi-rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may be expected to limit their exposure to rent-seeking by reducing investments. The U.S. evidence points clearly in this direction. The authors of this paper investigate whether the same is true for German works councils, the analogue of workplace union…
Determinants of trade union membership in West Germany: Evidence From Micro Data, 1980-2000
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated cross-sectional analyses suggest that a number of personal, occupational and attitudinal variables such as sex, occupational status, firm size and political orientation play a role in the unioniza…
Determinants of trade union growth and decline in the Federal Republic of German
This paper constructs a time-series model of trade union growth and decline in the Federal Republic of Germany (1955–1986) by testing and combining eleven economic and socio-political hypotheses prevalent in the German and international trade union literature. The model employs wages, prices, unemployment, employment, and the proportion of foreigners in the workforce as explanatory variables. It proves to be satisfactory when judged in terms of u…
Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane
Journal Article Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane Get access Elke J. Jahn, Elke J. Jahn Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Regina T. Riphahn, Regina T. Riphahn University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claus Schnabel Claus Schnabel University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg Search for ot…
Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets
This article confronts monopsony theory's predictions regarding workers' wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the years 1985 to 2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, the authors construct a time series of the labor supply elasticity to the firm and estimate its relationship to the unemployment rate. They find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic dow…
Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi-rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may be expected to limit their exposure to rent-seeking by reducing investments. The U.S. evidence points clearly in this direction. The authors of this paper investigate whether the same is true for German works councils, the analogue of workplace union…
Determinants of trade union membership in West Germany: Evidence From Micro Data, 1980-2000
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated cross-sectional analyses suggest that a number of personal, occupational and attitudinal variables such as sex, occupational status, firm size and political orientation play a role in the unioniza…
Do Start-ups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers
This article compares the hiring patterns of start-ups and incumbent firms to analyze whether start-ups offer relatively more job opportunities to disadvantaged workers. Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Germany that provide the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers, the authors show that young firms are more likely than incumbents to hire applicants who are older, foreign, or unemployed, or who have unstable…
Determinants of trade union growth and decline in the Federal Republic of German
This paper constructs a time-series model of trade union growth and decline in the Federal Republic of Germany (1955–1986) by testing and combining eleven economic and socio-political hypotheses prevalent in the German and international trade union literature. The model employs wages, prices, unemployment, employment, and the proportion of foreigners in the workforce as explanatory variables. It proves to be satisfactory when judged in terms of u…
Determinants of trade union membership in West Germany: Evidence From Micro Data, 1980-2000
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated cross-sectional analyses suggest that a number of personal, occupational and attitudinal variables such as sex, occupational status, firm size and political orientation play a role in the unioniza…
Do Newly Founded Firms Pay Lower Wages? First Evidence from Germany
Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi-rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may be expected to limit their exposure to rent-seeking by reducing investments. The U.S. evidence points clearly in this direction. The authors of this paper investigate whether the same is true for German works councils, the analogue of workplace union…
Low-Wage Employment Versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?
Employment stability in newly founded firms: A matching approach using linked employer–employee data from Germany
Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane
Journal Article Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane Get access Elke J. Jahn, Elke J. Jahn Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Regina T. Riphahn, Regina T. Riphahn University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claus Schnabel Claus Schnabel University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg Search for ot…
Establishment exits in Germany: The role of size and age
United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly in others even 25 years after unification. Whereas no substantial differences can be detected in firms’ labour demand decisions and in employees’ representation via works councils or trade unions, both par…
Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, survival, and the role of their parents
Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets
This article confronts monopsony theory's predictions regarding workers' wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the years 1985 to 2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, the authors construct a time series of the labor supply elasticity to the firm and estimate its relationship to the unemployment rate. They find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic dow…
Do Start-ups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers
This article compares the hiring patterns of start-ups and incumbent firms to analyze whether start-ups offer relatively more job opportunities to disadvantaged workers. Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Germany that provide the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers, the authors show that young firms are more likely than incumbents to hire applicants who are older, foreign, or unemployed, or who have unstable…
Does working at a start-up pay off
Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in labor market performance of workers joining start-ups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and (un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types …
The threat of electronic performance monitoring: Exploring the role of leader-member exchange on employee privacy invasion
Advances in digitalization have led employers to increasingly adopt electronic performance monitoring technologies that allow supervisors to observe, analyze and evaluate not only employees' work activities, but also their cognitive and behavioral data. This has significant implications for employees' perceptions of privacy, and, in turn, for their basic needs, intrinsic motivation, and turnover intentions. However, the extent of perceiving priva…
Unionization of retired workers in Europe
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired workers’ probability of union membership is 17 percentage points lower than that of active workers, with some variation among countries. This finding is co…
Economics (13 works) · Labour economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (8 works) · Finance (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works)