US. A recent study by Hönigsberger (2008) for Germany basically concludes union members to overwhelmingly stick to their … contradicting empirical results, based on a newly constructed dataset for Germany. In a VAR analysis we find that the degree of … in Germany trade unions do not seem to be as weak as they tend to claim. -- trade unions ; unemployment ; growth …

their monopoly power during the last decades in the US. Similarly, a recent study for Germany comes to the result that union …

address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers … individually decide on their membership. We analyse whether exogenously manipulated perceptions of job insecurity encourage … data to analyse the implications of changes in labour market conditions for changes in union membership using an …

address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers … individually decide on their membership. We analyse whether exogenously manipulated perceptions of job insecurity encourage … the data to analyse the implications of changes in labour market conditions for changes in union membership using an …

, implications of union having control over membership, and, hence, of unemployment insurance coverage, are also considered, as well …