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Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of … collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …, productivity, innovation, and survivability - in a RDD framework where the controls comprise establishments that negotiated over …
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review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …
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The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …
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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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German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …
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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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