Claus Schnabel

Research Fellow

Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg

claus.schnabel@fau.de

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Claus Schnabel has been professor of economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2000. Since 2015, he is also research professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). He studied economics at Hohenheim University, Germany, and at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, where he received an M.A. in 1985. He received his doctoral degree in economics from Hohenheim University in 1988 and finished his habilitation at Ruhr University Bochum in 1997. From 1988 to 2000 he worked as researcher and finally as senior economist at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft in Cologne.

His main research interests are in the fields of empirical labour economics and industrial relations. Currently, he works on the following topics: trade unions, collective bargaining, codetermination, and entrepreneurship. He has published widely in economics, industrial relations and other journals, including the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Journal, European Sociological Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Labour Economics. He has also published a number of books and edited (with John T. Addison) the International Handbook of Trade Unions.

Claus Schnabel joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2006.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3842

Union Membership and Age: The Inverted U-Shape Hypothesis under Test

Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published as 'With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship' in: Contemporary Economics, 2012, 6 (4), 28-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3661

The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006

Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2008, 228 (5-6), 497-511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3359

Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (2), 303-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3353

Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Claus Schnabel, Susanne Kohaut, Udo Brixy

published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(1), 85-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2443

Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Boris Hirsch, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel

substantially revised version published as "Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (2), 291-330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2388

The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2007, 14(2), 118-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2000

The (Parlous) State of German Unions

John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2007, 28 (1), 3-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1658

Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany

Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner

published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2006, 13 (2), 118-131