The article addresses the question whether or not the trend towards the decentralisation of collective bargaining on …

. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may … adopt either individualised or collective wage bargaining. In the calibrated model, a substantial fraction of workers and … firms as well as the median voter prefer collective bargaining to the decentralised regime. A fundamental distortion of the …

Collective bargaining in the German metal and electrical engineering (M+E) industries has undergone a phase of … considerable development since the 1990s. The profound changes which underwent collective bargaining in M+E over the last two … restructuring which shaped the bargaining agenda. This discussion paper examines these developments, putting a special focus on the …

. Because of the declining bargaining coverage, calls for a stabilisation of the collective bargaining system are increasing. In …

and fragmentation of collective bargaining as well - and more fundamentally - to a significant change in power relations …

. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may … adopt either individualized or collective wage bargaining. In the calibrated model, a substantial fraction of workers and … firms as well as the median voter prefer collective bargaining to the decentralised regime. A fundamental distortion of the …