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

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data … increasingly important role for bargaining at the firm level. The average length of collective bargaining agreements is found to …

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 …

heterogeneous effects. The impact of trade on wages varies across bargaining regimes. In firms with collective bargaining, the … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains … associated with collective bargaining are similar across worker categories. Keywords: exports, offshoring, firm-level wages …