manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and workers' bargaining power parameters according to sector, firm size and … period. We find a significant drop in both the mark-up and the workers' bargaining power in the mid-nineties. In the second … significantly contributed to the decrease in both mark-ups and workers' bargaining power. -- workers' bargaining power ; mark …

hiring agency workers and trade union activity at the workplace, in particular, the type of collective bargaining agreements … bargaining have lower wages in the presence of agency workers, suggesting that agency workers are hired against the unions …. -- Work agency ; trade union ; collective bargaining ; flexibility ; Workplace Employment Relations Survey …

, 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 …

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 …

collective bargaining, existence of a works council, and union density – within a four-equation model. We find an insignificant …