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

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 …

. -- Trade union membership ; social custom ; wage bargaining …

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

bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo … variable entity. We use linkedemployer-employee data for Germany and analyse the effect of collective bargaining coverage on … employment growth in German plants. We find a robust and negative correlation between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining …

bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo … variable entity. We use linkedemployer-employee data for Germany and analyse the effect of collective bargaining coverage on … employment growth in German plants. We find a robust and negative correlation between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining …