The latest trends and developments on employment-related collective bargaining in Germany during the reference period are analysed in this study. We start with a quantitative overview on recent collective agreements and then describe the main types of measures negotiated in the newly concluded...

In der empirischen Arbeitsmarktforschung spielt der Staat als Arbeitgeber bislang eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. Die Tatsache, dass die Geltung eines Tarifvertrags und die Existenz eines Betriebs- bzw. Personalrats integraler Bestandteil des oeffentlichen Dienstes sind, muss bei einem Vergleich...

Der Beitrag geht zum einen der Frage nach, ob es Unterschiede in der personalpolitischen Ausrichtung der marktbestimmten Dienstleistungen im Vergleich zum verarbeitenden Gewerbe gibt, die nicht durch strukturelle Faktoren wie die Zusammensetzung der Betriebe und die Struktur der Belegschaft zu...

Angesichts der Ausweitung des Leiharbeitseinsatzes, der zum Teil mit negativen Folgen für die Arbeitnehmer verbunden sein kann, suchen Gewerkschaften nach Moeglichkeiten zur ‚Humanisierung’ der Leiharbeit. Eine bislang wenig beachtete Alternative zur Leiharbeit stellt dabei die sog....

Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are important differences among European countries. Which are the reasons that explain these different...

Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may be expected to limit their exposure to rent seeking by reducing investments, among other things....

A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment, (iii) differences in the proportion of part-time work across countries. The model predicts that the higher the level of...

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation...

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...