This paper discusses different national patterns of research on work and employment (i.e. industrial relations) in the United States and Germany and reveals considerable cross-country variation in the organizational, methodological, theoretical, and ideational traditions of IR research. Based on...

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the extent to which employers insure workers against transitory and permanent firm-level shocks. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the amount of wage insurance depends on the nature of industrial relations....

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre verfolgen die Tarifparteien in Deutschland überwiegend eine moderate Lohnpolitik. Diese hat die Lohnstückkostenposition verbessert und die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit gesteigert. Gleichzeitig unterstützte die Lohnpolitik im Zusammenspiel mit den...

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...