Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed …. -- trade union power ; wage bargaining ; labour share ; Germany …

centralized bargaining agreements indeed have economically and statistically significantly larger total factor productivities and … scale elasticities than comparable establishments outside the centralized bargaining regime. …

decentralization in collective bargaining hinges in part on the health of that other pillar of the dual system of industrial relations …. -- union membership ; union density ; union mergers ; collective bargaining ; works councils ; decentralization …

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 …

bargaining agreements still individually benefit from these union agreements, which workers are not covered anymore, and what …

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

bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German … negotiating. Wage bargaining is more likely for more-educated applicants and in jobs with special requirements as well as in tight …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … positive and negative economic shocks are not always symmetric. Only under sectoral bargaining there is a (nearly symmetric …) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts …