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 …

review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …

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 …

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross …

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 …

German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally …