In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both …-employer collective bargaining clearly dominates in Germany. Econometric analyses show that more or less the same set of variables play a …

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 …