bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo … employment growth in German plants. We find a robust and negative correlation between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining … variable entity. We use linkedemployer-employee data for Germany and analyse the effect of collective bargaining coverage on …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …

If a profit-maximising firm credibly commits to an employment-enhancing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objective …, while the increase in employment enhances the payoff of a wage-setting trade union. Therefore, both the firm and the trade …

imperfectly competitive and the price of labor is determined by collective bargaining. The resulting rise in wages reduces output … and profits and can deter entry. We analyze under which conditions greater bargaining power by the trade union reduces … entry and raises welfare. Furthermore, we show that collective bargaining loosens the linkage between business stealing and …

employment if there is efficient bargaining. Importantly from a normative vantage point, such CSR objectives make a welfare … whether there are wage negotiations or there is efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby … in the absence of collective bargaining. Adopting a positive perspective, we show that CSR objectives, which induce a …

unemployment rates represent a second source of exogenous variation. Third, we propose a novel identification approach based on …