Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of … orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for …

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data … and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union differential based on separate samples of … collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the corresponding counterfactual groups. It is reported that average wages …

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …