, 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 …

, and individual and firm-level wage regressions. Unions' impact through collective and firm-level bargaining mainly works …

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 …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

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 … time when collective bargaining proper has been in retreat, little is known of corresponding trends in the frequency of …

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 …

that unions were engaged in concession bargaining. Overall, our results challenge the common view that trade unions in the …