Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of … collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …, productivity, innovation, and survivability – in a RDD framework where the controls comprise establishments that negotiated over …

Deutschland kommt es somit umso mehr darauf an, den Unternehmen attraktive Standorteigenschaften zu bieten. -- International und … Bedeutung sind, in welche Richtung in Deutschland ein Programm zur Standortstärkung und zur Überwindung der Wachstumsschwäche … zielen müsste, welche Auswirkungen Investitionen deutscher Firmen im Ausland auf die Beschäftigung in Deutschland haben …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …