Although European institutions and national governments have long pushed for a more decentralized wage bargaining structure, in some countries company or establishment-level negotiations struggle to take place. This paper offers an interpretation for that based on workers' optimal choices in an...

Betriebsräte und Gewerkschaften, Arbeitgeber und Arbeitgeberverbände sowie staatliche Instanzen zählen zu den zentralen Akteuren des dualen Systems der Interessenvertretung in Deutschland. Daneben gab es zwar immer schon weitere Akteure (z. B. Bildungsorganisationen oder Anwaltskanzleien)....

Betriebsräte und Gewerkschaften, Arbeitgeber und Arbeitgeberverbände sowie staatliche Instanzen zählen zu den zentralen Akteuren des dualen Systems der Interessenvertretung in Deutschland. Daneben gab es zwar immer schon weitere Akteure (z. B. Bildungsorganisationen oder Anwaltskanzleien). In...

Although European institutions and national governments have long pushed for a more decentralized wage bargaining structure, in some countries company or establishment-level negotiations struggle to take place. This paper offers an interpretation for that based on workers' optimal choices in an...

We develop a model of strategic networks in order to analyze how trade unions will affect the stability and efficiency of R&D collaboration networks in an oligopolistic industry with three firms. Whenever firms settle wages, the complete network is always pairwise stable and the partially...

Although coverage of collective bargaining agreements has been declining for decades in most countries, it is still extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms’ incentives to invest in capital, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk...

This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance. We show that Chinese unions have a strong State-Party voice face and a collective voice face but lack of monopoly face. The government influence plays an important role in...

Seit Januar 2015 gilt in Deutschland ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn von 8,50 € pro Stunde. Die Mindestlohneinführung ist Teil eines Gesetzes zur Stärkung der Tarifautonomie, das darauf abzielt, die Tarifbindung wieder zu erhöhen und Allgemeinverbindlicherklärungen zu erleichtern. In diesem...

This paper studies the relation between the wage and amenity components of compensation under collective bargaining. Using the universe of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in Brazil, I augment information on workers' wages with the comprehensive set of amenities codified in the text of...

This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and that collective bargaining has become more decentralized over the last decades. However, there is a considerable amount of variation across countries and between different...