Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper demonstrates that the impact of works council presence on labor productivity varies between manufacturing and services, between plants that are or are not covered by collective...

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR...

In diesem Aufsatz wird der Einfluß der Außen- und Binnenprotektion auf das Tempo des Strukturwandels in der Bundesrepublik untersucht. Dafür werden detaillierte statistische Informationen über Zolle und Subventionen nach 31 Wirtschaftszweigen präsentiert. Die Auswirkungen dieser...

This paper provides a theoretical framework and some empirical information on the shift from industrialization to de-industrialization which typically occurs in the course of economic growth. It is suggested that such a non-monotonic structural change is caused by a diminishing productivity bias...