This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

reform. The reform has positive medium-run effects on earnings and employment while reducing full-time employment. There are …

reform. The reform has positive medium-run effects on earnings and employment while reducing full-time employment. There are …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …

approach based on Fairlie (2005). Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey for 2001 and … 2006, we document a sharp drop in collective bargaining coverage that amounts to 17 percentage points for males and 20 … explanation for the drop in collective bargaining coverage. The drop in coverage is the result of an unexplained time trend. …