In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be … replaced by a more decentralized system. This paper provides a critical assessment of the current wage bargaining institutions … into the comparison, the unformly superior employment performance of a decentralized wage bargaining system is questioned …

This paper analyzes the influence of the structure of collective bargaining on foreign direct investment abroad, using … affect foreign direct investment. The less centralized or coordinated collective bargaining is, the higher is foreign direct … investment abroad. It also turns out that union density, bargaining coverage, or labour costs have no significant impact on …

This paper examines critically the system of industry-level wage bargaining in Germany. More specifically, it shows … that the importance of industry-level wage bargaining declines in Germany and that one major reason for this development is … the highly restrictive institutional framework. However, fully decentralized wage bargaining at the firm level also …

This paper analyzes the influence of the structure of collective wage bargaining on direct investment abroad. A wage … negotiations model shows that high productive firms benefit from centralized bargaining and invest therefore less abroad than under … dezentralized bargaining. An empirical study uses firm level data from the "Hannoveraner Firmenpanels" in 1995 and 97. Firms with …

In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages … outcomes of different bargaining regimes cannot simply be ranked according to the degree of bargaining centralisation. The …

analyze two models of wage determination, one with efficiency wage setting and one with bargaining between a union and a firm … employment and wages, and a reduction in profitability. In the bargaining case however, the effect on wages and profits may be …