Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …

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

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …

setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …

Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage …