War mit der Vereinigung Deutschlands ein starker Anstieg in der Mitgliederzahl der Gewerkschaften in Deutschland …

to study both competitive interaction in general and the potential price effects of a recently announced merger of the … empirical results suggest short-term price increases on certain route types post-merger, it remains an open question whether the … merger should be classified as anticompetitive. …

We study the fiscal consequences of municipal mergers by making use of a largescale merger reform in the German federal … panel data from 1995-2010 at the level of post-merger municipalities. We find significant reductions in (administrative … effects of voluntary and compulsory mergers vary according to further (secondary) characteristics of a merger. …

In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be …

Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been …

percentage points for females in West, and eight and 14 percentage points, respectively, in East Germany. We find that neither …

and West Germany. In East-West comparison, differences in the characteristics of the work force reflect a lower quality of …Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain …