of considerable job losses and bankruptcy. -- Wage insurance ; linked employer-employee data ; collective bargaining …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be … replaced by a more decentralized system. This paper provides a critical assessment of the current wage bargaining institutions … into the comparison, the unformly superior employment performance of a decentralized wage bargaining system is questioned …

This paper examines critically the system of industry-level wage bargaining in Germany. More specifically, it shows … that the importance of industry-level wage bargaining declines in Germany and that one major reason for this development is … the highly restrictive institutional framework. However, fully decentralized wage bargaining at the firm level also …

wage premium of collective bargaining contracts. In contrast to previous studies, we seek to assess the extent to which … differences in wages between workers in covered and uncovered firms arise from the non-random selection of workers and firms into … collective bargaining coverage. By measuring the relative wage changes of workers employed in firms that change contract status …

In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages … outcomes of different bargaining regimes cannot simply be ranked according to the degree of bargaining centralisation. The … argument will be that negotiated wages rather depend on the technical relationship between different groups of labour and goods …

rather benefit from collective bargaining coverage and local works councils. These findings are consistent with internal …