Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union power as measured by net union density (NUD) in a labor market segment …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time the direction of causality in this relationship is investigated … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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