This paper investigates trends in collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany from 2000 to 2008. It … seeks to update and widen earlier analyses pointing to a decline in collective bargaining, while providing more information …

It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of … orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … time when collective bargaining proper has been in retreat, little is known of corresponding trends in the frequency of …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an …-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners and never members on the one hand and collective bargaining leavers and always members …