In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

This paper offers a cartel explanation for the stability of German collective bargaining institutions.We show that a … dense net of legal safeguards has been yarned around the wage setting cartel. These measures make deviation by cartel … measures, which make wages more flexible, serve to further stabilize the labor cartel, while truly pro-competitive proposals …

In this paper we apply standard cartel theory to identify the major institutional stabilizers of Germany?s area tariff … system of collective bargaining between a single industry union and the industry?s employers association. Our cartel analysis … stabilize the labor cartel while other pro-competitive proposals have failed. We argue that the pro-competitive recommendations …

Mit der Massenarbeitslosigkeit ist das Flächentarifsystem in Deutschland in die Kritik geraten. Insbesondere wird der …

) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same variety of capitalism, we provide evidence that small …