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 …

other countries, this first study on Germany finds true state dependence in low pay jobs and confirms previous results of …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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 …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …