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 framework within which works councils are embedded, and also by allowing for works council learning. It is reported … associated with a much higher probability of transitioning from no collective bargaining to sectoral bargaining coverage over the …

, 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 …

collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …

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 …

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 …

collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the corresponding counterfactual groups. It is reported that average wages …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …, collective bargaining at sectoral level might even be pro innovative. …