can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a … survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for explanations based on collective wage agreements and on efficency wages … quits are important reasons for wage rigidities for high skilled labour. Compared to findings from the USA, in Germany …

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … factors when firms from the service sector are faced with demand shocks. The estimation results indicate that collective wage …

productivity effect can only be measured in establishments with works councils, i.e. employee induced participation. The estimation …This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a … reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups in 1997 significantly increases average establishment productivity in 1997 …

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages …. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective … wage determination without any bargaining coverage. Our findings indicate that individual wages are positively related to …

employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and …

, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …