In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

. Empirical data underpin our theoretical findings: A regression analysis of Germany’s green tax reform explains environmental tax …

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of … than the average overall GWG. Furthermore, we can show that firms with formalized co-determination (works council) and …

codetermination because it reduces the utility they gain from being the ultimate bosses within the establishment. …

Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might … German data and includes years before and after the extension of German codetermination law in 1976. The estimates determine … the productivity of labor and relative bargaining power of capital and labor. It turns out that codetermination does not …

, describe the development of various wage measures, labor productivity and unit labor costs in East Germany in relation to West … Germany, and relate these developments to the system of collective wage bargaining. At the microeconomic level, we describe … by way of empirical wage functions estimated on the basis of the Socio-Economic Panel for East Germany. The paper also …