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Professor Dr. Boris Hirsch

Professor Dr. Boris Hirsch
Aktuelle Position

 

seit 12/16

Research Fellow der Abteilung Arbeitsmärkte

Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)

seit 08/16

Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

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Forschungsschwerpunkte
  • Arbeitsmarkt
  • industrielle Beziehungen
  • empirische Arbeitsmarktökonomik

Boris Hirsch ist seit Dezember 2016 Research Fellow am IWH. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen Modelle unvollkommenen Wettbewerbs am Arbeitsmarkt und deren empirische Überprüfung sowie Fragestellungen der empirischen Arbeitsmarktforschung, industrieller Beziehungen und der Migration.

Boris Hirsch ist Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre mit dem Schwerpunkt Mikroökonometrie und Politikevaluation an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.

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Monopsonistic Labour Markets

Hartmut Egger Boris Hirsch

in: German Economic Review, Vol. 26 (4), 2025

Abstract

The three articles in this special issue on “Monopsonistic Labour Markets” provide novel insights on how to model the reasons for employers’ monopsony power, how to measure it, and how much of it materialises in lower wages. We are confident that the studies published in this issue will be of high interest to specialists and a broader audience of economists alike. They definitely deserve a wide readership, and our not unwarranted hope is that they will provide new impulses to those partaking in the monopsony literature.

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Organized Labor, Labor Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia

Sabien Dobbelaere Boris Hirsch Steffen Müller Georg Neuschäffer

in: ILR Review, Vol. 77 (3), 2024

Abstract

This article examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils relate to labor market imperfections and how labor market imperfections relate to employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, the authors document that 70% of employers pay wages below the marginal revenue product of labor and 30% pay wages above that level. Findings further show that the prevalence of wage markdowns is significantly smaller when organized labor is present, and that the ratio of wages to the marginal revenue product of labor is significantly larger. Finally, the authors document a close link between labor market imperfections and mean employer wage premia, that is, wage differences between employers corrected for worker sorting.

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Unions as Insurance: Workplace Unionization and Workers' Outcomes During COVID-19

Nils Braakmann Boris Hirsch

in: Industrial Relations, Vol. 63 (2), 2024

Abstract

We investigate to what extent workplace unionization protects workers from external shocks by preventing involuntary job separations. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionized and non-unionized workplaces directly before the pandemic in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that unionized workers were substantially more likely to remain working for their pre-COVID employer and to be in employment. This greater employment stability was not traded off against lower working hours or labor income.

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