trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities. …

Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals? probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …