Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … (favorable) impact on investment. …

Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … (favorable) impact on investment. …

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

Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce … and unions, individualization theory and social custom theory is not consistently supported by our estimations. …

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 …

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 …