In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …

Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …

on panel data for West Germany indicate that the legal change did have a negative effect on severance pay. -- panel data …