unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals' probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

Germany from 1980 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce … variables such as age, public sector employment and being a blue collar worker (significant in western Germany only). A … decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and between eastern and western Germany to a large degree …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

small and medium-sized plants, in particular in the service sector and in eastern Germany, and its extent is increasing …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …In Deutschland zahlen Arbeitgeber traditionell den gleichen Tariflohn für Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und -nichtmitglieder …

union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the …Mit repräsentativen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels findet diese Studie für Deutschland eine statistisch …

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 … Lohnfindung zu wählen. Da Arbeitgeber in Deutschland das Lohnfindungsregime frei wählen können, überprüfen wir diese Hypothesen …

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …