Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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 …

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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