The area-wide wage agreement is at the centre of Germany s system of collective bargaining. In recent years, however …, there has been a tendency towards the decentralisation of collective bargaining. Individual wage agreements have led to more … had this moderating effect. On the other hand, collective bargaining has become more flexible. The further …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … positive and negative economic shocks are not always symmetric. Only under sectoral bargaining there is a (nearly symmetric …) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts …

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross …

much more pronounced for firms covered by collective bargaining agreements …

, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker … Workplace Employment Relations Survey. We identify the workplace correlates of the demise of collective bargaining in Britain … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

trend toward decentralization in collective bargaining hinges in part on the health of that other pillar of the dual system …

Recent studies have pointed to the association between declining collective bargaining coverage and rising overall wage …

This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries … changes in collective bargaining and worker representation in the private sector in Germany and Britain over the period 1998 …, the decline in collective bargaining is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, thus continuing a trend apparent since …