firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both …-employer collective bargaining clearly dominates in Germany. Econometric analyses show that more or less the same set of variables play a …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals? probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …