An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce....

The discussion about employee representation on supervisory boards has received much attention from scholars and politicians around the world. We provide new insights to this ongoing debate by employing power indices from game theory to examine the "real" power of employees on boards and its...

An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce....

Das Arbeitspapier untersucht Ziele und Rahmenbedingungen der jüngsten beschäftigungs- und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Reformen in Deutschland, die auf eine weit reichende Umstrukturierung der Rahmenbedingungen, des Förderinstrumentariums und auch der Förderintentionen ziel(t)en ("Agenda...

Whilst most studies on the transformation of industrial relations (IR) in Eastern Europe focus on the common trends, this paper examines variations in IR practices at company level. It uses a revised version of the exchange model to analyse the evidence from nineteen case studies in Romania. As...

Seit dem Stinnes-Legien-Abkommen (1918) wurden die Tarifautonomie von Arbeitgeberverbänden und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland und ihre Legitimität immer wieder politisch diskutiert oder sogar infrage gestellt. Die Zweckmäßigkeit der Tarifautonomie ist also einer fortwährenden...

This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...