Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that … will fall further. -- Union membership ; union density ; cohort effects, West Germany …

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

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a …

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … 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 cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …