's decision to unionise (such as social custom theory). A review of the international empirical evidence shows that business cycle …

offer a truly international perspective on this important subject …. Unions and productivity, financial performance and investment : international evidence / David Metcalf -- 6. Collective … around the world / Jelle Visser -- 12. Recent changes in the industrial relations framework in the UK / John T. Addison and W …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts found in the emerging literature on the microeconometrics of international … trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia … von kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten-Daten aus Deutschland um zu zeigen, dass diese Lohnzuschläge verschwinden, wenn die …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …Unter Verwendung eines kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten- Datensatzes für Deutschland analysiert dieser Beitrag die …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a …Unter Verwendung eines kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten- Datensatzes für Deutschland analysiert dieser Beitrag die …