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Decentralising wage bargaining in Germany : a way to increase employment?

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

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 …

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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020

This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace co-determination through works councils …

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

bargaining framework within which works councils are embedded, and also by allowing for works council learning. It is reported … associated with a much higher probability of transitioning from no collective bargaining to sectoral bargaining coverage over the …

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Trade exposure and the decline in collective bargaining : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019

Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996–2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in … increased import exposure has led to an increase in the probability of German plants leaving industry-wide bargaining agreements …

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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018

This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...

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Do left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants? : empirical evidence from the German states

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020

We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...

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Competition and trust : evidence from German car manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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Trust, competition and innovation : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015

We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...

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Trust, investment and competition : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2019

only when the buyer has the bargaining power. This ability disappears when the bargaining power resides with the supplier(s). …

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Low skill but high volatility?

Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009

Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...

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