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collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …
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representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the …
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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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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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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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This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data …
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. That said, works councils do not seem to further slow the tortuous pace of employment adjustment in Germany. …
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Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...
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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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changes in collective bargaining and worker representation in the private sector in Germany and Britain over the period 1998 …, the decline in collective bargaining is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, thus continuing a trend apparent since …
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