restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …-employer agreements are significantly less likely to have wage cushions. -- Wages ; wage cushion ; wage determination ; bargaining …

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 …

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

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 …

probabilities of having a works council or a collective bargaining agreement. We show that family firms which are solely, partially … or not managed by the owners significantly differ in the presence of works councils and collective bargaining agreements …