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This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross …
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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 …
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plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …
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exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally …
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Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...
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This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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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 …
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This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data …
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representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …
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This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings. The wage premium is around 11 percent (and is higher under...
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