Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable … Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works … consequences of our findings for economic analysis of the institution and for public policy. …

Since 1920, the thrust of German law on workplace codetermination has changed on a number of occasions. We describe the …

collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …

representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the … consider the North American evidence as cut and dried, this is not the case for other countries. In Europe there is some …

Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable … Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works … of the institution and for public policy. …

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data …