likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

service sector and in eastern Germany, and its extent is increasing dramatically …

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed …

This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the …

representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …

pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use … flexibility provisions to deviate downwards from collective agreements. The greater flexibility of the German system may reduce …

decision making has the potential to foster workers political participation in civic society. Our study for Germany indeed …