Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of … orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

offers, the determinants of reservation wages, transitions out of unemployment, and accepted wages. In this exploratory … wages do decline with the jobless spell (and aggregate unemployment); that transitions out of unemployment exhibit strong … negative duration dependence for reasons that have more to do with the arrival rate of job offers than with reservation wages …

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …