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German collective bargaining in a European perspective : continuous erosion or re-stabilisation of multi-employer agreements?
Bispinck, Reinhard; Dribbusch, Heiner; Schulten, Thorsten - 2010
Since the mid-1990s the German system of collective bargaining with its traditional dominance of sector …-level agreements has been faced by a process of creeping erosion. While the bargaining coverage has shown a steady decline, a far …-reaching decentralisation has increasingly undermined the system of multi-employer bargaining. Compared with other European countries, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661753
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European vs. American hours worked: assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins
Langot, François; Quintero-Rojas, Coralia - 2008
Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268973
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European vs. American hours worked : assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins
Langot, François (contributor);  … - 2008
Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778864