In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany … gewerkschaftlicher Stäarke her und berechnen ihn mit Jahresdaten für Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die …

Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …

Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …