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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022

union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed …

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Changes in the German Wage Structure : Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics

Biewen, Martin - 2017

in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995–2010. In contrast to most previous contributions, we rely on the … results suggest that recent changes in the distribution of hourly wages in Germany look different from the polarizing patterns …

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980-2006

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2021

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …

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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004 : What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus - 2006

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 …

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Trade Union Membership and Works Councils in West Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union density among … the fall in union density in West Germany are closely linked …

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The Wage Impact of Trade Unionsin the UK Public and Private Sectors

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premiumin the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membershipwage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range ofindividual, job and...

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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World:Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governancenorm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density inthe U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from aformalized union norm to...

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