In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is … specific clientele. -- Works council ; separations ; collective voice ; duration models ; Germany …

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … of wage inequality in Germany. -- Wage inequality ; occupations ; tasks ; skill biased technical change ; polarization …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … bargaining ; Germany …