.The authors of this paper use unique linked employer-employee data from a 2003 survey inBelgium to examine how these bargaining … firms and for differences in characteristics between bargaining regimes.Moreover, in centralized industries, rent-sharing is …, both firm andindustry bargaining generate rent-sharing to the same extent. …

introduction of the European monetary union. Whether and how far collective bargaining can be coordinated throughout Europe or …

jobs; and iii) the effects of financial pressures and corporate reform on collective bargaining and wages. This is the …

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 …