"Judicial decisions concerning industrial action have strengthened the right to strike and made lockouts virtually impossible. Employers respond to such a shift in the power on the labour market with relocations and power on the goods market. In addition the trade unions are threatened by...

"In Germany, trade unions and employers' associations play a role not only in wage determination but also in issues of social policy and labour law. While the majority of firms are organized in employers' associations, less than one quarter of employees are members of a trade union. Both social...

"The first main part of the article summarises empirical findings on the relevant dimensions of the reorganisation of work processes and company organisations. The 'new management concepts' are introduced as well as their objectives with regard to the rearrangement of organisation issues and the...

Mit den fortgesetzten Streiks bei der Deutschen Bahn und der Lufthansa wächst der Unmut über die Spartengewerkschaften. Sollte der Gesetzgeber die Tarifpluralität und das Handeln kleiner Gewerkschaften beschneiden? Norbert Berthold, Universität Würzburg, plädiert für Tarifpluralität...

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

"Most models on centralization in wage setting rest on the assumption of identical firms. This stands in sharp contrast to informal statements against centralization wich rest on the argument that firms are heterogenous and that equal treatment of firms by unions must therefore be ineffcient. We...