, 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 …

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 …

This paper investigates trends in collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany from 2000 to 2008. It … seeks to update and widen earlier analyses pointing to a decline in collective bargaining, while providing more information … appears to be so. -- Erosion of the dual system ; collective bargaining/works council coverage ; eastern and western Germany …

In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …

collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross … distinct and symmetric. -- sectoral and firm agreements ; changes in collective bargaining/works council coverage ; shift …-share analysis ; bargaining transitions ; survivability …

bargaining power of their union as indicated by workplace union density. In Norway, on the other hand, although a union wage … female-dominated women benefit more than men from the increased bargaining power of the union as union density rises. The …

wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … the theory with workplace data for Britain and Norway. Results are consistent with the theory: local union bargaining is … positively associated with product innovations in both countries. In Norway, local union bargaining is also positively associated …