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Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages

Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent …

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Let’s Take Bargaining Models Seriously:The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer unionpower from the observed …

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities inCollective Bargaining Agreements

Christofides, Louis N.; Nearchou, Paris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity andsignificant spikes at zero. We extend this earlier approach to encompass the possibility ofreal as well as nominal wage...

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