coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional … setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union power as measured by net union density (NUD) in a labor market segment … regressions, this is the first empirical paper which simultaneously analyzes these three dimensions of union influence on the …

coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional … setup suggests to distinguish explicitly between the effects of union power as measured by net union density (NUD) in a … dimensions of union influence on the structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent … bargaining agreements still individually benefit from these union agreements, which workers are not covered anymore, and what … individual coverage (and thus the union wage) anymore. Econometric analyses with unconditional quantile regressions and firm …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent … bargaining agreements still individually benefit from these union agreements, which workers are not covered anymore, and what … individual coverage (and thus the union wage) anymore. Econometric analyses with unconditional quantile regressions and firm …

In Deutschland zahlen Arbeitgeber traditionell den gleichen Tariflohn für Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und -nichtmitglieder …In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent … bargaining agreements still individually benefit from these union agreements, which workers are not covered anymore, and what …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent … bargaining agreements still individually benefit from these union agreements, which workers are not covered anymore, and what … individual coverage (and thus the union wage) anymore. Econometric analyses with unconditional quantile regressions and firm …

union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the … union membership fee is typically about one percent of workers' gross wages, this finding suggests that it pays off to be a … union member. Our results show that the wage premium differs substantially between various occupations and educational …