Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation -...

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings. The wage premium is around 11 percent (and is higher under...

Der Beitrag widmet sich den Vertretungsinstitutionen jenseits des Betriebsverfassungsgesetzes. Auf Grundlage des IAB-Betriebspanels wird zunaechst die Verbreitung und Entwicklung solcher alternativer Vertretungsorgane beschrieben, bevor deren Schicksal auf einzelbetrieblicher Ebene nachgegangen...