Over the last ten years, Germany has been the country that has displayed the greatest degree of restraint in collective bargaining. Few other OECD countries have had such a modest increase in unit labour costs and few have lived below their means to the same extent in terms of wage policy. While...

During the last decades, German industrial relations have undergone significant changes leading to a partial erosion and fragmentation of collective bargaining as well - and more fundamentally - to a significant change in power relations and the weakening of trade unions. As a result, wage...

Die politische Auseinandersetzung um die Begrenzung des Niedriglohnsektors in Deutschland ist nach wie vor in vollem Gang. Zwar gewinnt die Forderung nach einem einheitlichen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn immer mehr an Unterstützung, aber durchgesetzt ist sie noch keineswegs. Der vorliegende...