Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022
In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent … individual coverage (and thus the union wage) anymore. Econometric analyses with unconditional quantile regressions and firm …-fixed-effects estimations demonstrate that not being individually covered by a collective agreement has serious wage implications for most …