setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. -- firm …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …

service sector and in eastern Germany, and its extent is increasing dramatically. …

Germany and asks the personnel managers about their expectations concerning employment adjustments. We find that employment …

union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the …