Beschreibung

"This paper analyzes differences in wages, bargaining coverage and labor fluctuation between newly founded and other firms in Germany in the period from 1997 to 2001. It makes use of a representative sample of establishments that were founded in 1995/96 and that form part of a large-scale set of establishment data in Germany. This unique data set is described in section 2. Section 3 analyzes the determinants of labor fluctuation and traces the observed differences in labor turnover of the cohort of newly founded establishments over time. In a similar way, the wage differential of newly founded establishments is investigated in Section 4, and their bargaining coverage is compared to that of other plants. Section 5 provides some concluding remarks and suggestions for future research." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))