Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable … Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works … consequences of our findings for economic analysis of the institution and for public policy. …

Since 1920, the thrust of German law on workplace codetermination has changed on a number of occasions. We describe the …

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasiparity codetermination at company … parity. And although the German system may be better than its reputation among foreigners, it might have to adapt to … globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. …

This paper assesses the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and …

representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … consider the North American evidence as cut and dried, this is not the case for other countries. In Europe there is some …

exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … inequality are constructed for German establishments over the twelve-year period 1996-2008, an interval of continuously declining … Germany more generally. …

exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … inequality are constructed for German establishments over the twelve-year period 1996-2008, an interval of continuously declining … Germany more generally. …

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data …

Germany where the phenomenon has been linked to economic resurgence. The present paper takes an unconventional approach to …