In many countries, notably across Europe, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to all firms and workers in the same sector. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions...

This paper identifies four roles of contemporary European Employers’ Organisations. European Employers’ Organisations are lobbyists in Brussels that represent the interests of their members, seeking to influence institutions. European Employers’ Organisations are reluctant social partners...

This Handbook presents profiles of European Employers` Organisations (EEOs). The profiles provide general information on each organisation and detail how EEOs represent their member interests in the areas of employment relations, work, labour, and social policy in the European Union. This...

While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), their counterparts in many countries. Here we argue that EAs are important economic agents as they provide sectoral public goods such as collective bargaining, training, and...

In many countries, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to all firms and workers in the sector. This paper analyzes the causal impact of extensions using a natural experiment in...