Die deutsche Lohnpolitik ist seit der Wirtschafts- und Finanzmarktkrise auf Expansionskurs. Während sich Arbeitskosten und Produktivität im Zeitraum 2000 bis 2008 noch im Gleichschritt entwickelten, koppeln sich die Arbeitskosten seit 2009 ab. Die deutsche Lohnpolitik ist derzeit aber nicht...

The paper aims at investigating to what extent wage negotiation set-ups have shaped up firms’ response to the Great Recession, taking a firm-level cross-country perspective. We contribute to the literature by building a new micro-distributed database which merges data related to wage...

This paper provides evidence on the effect of employee representation on working time flexibility in private-sector European establishments. A 2002 European Union directive granted information, consultation and representation rights to employees on a range of key business, employment and work...

The paper aims at investigating to what extent wage negotiation set-ups have shaped up firms' response to the Great Recession, taking a firm-level cross-country perspective. We contribute to the literature by building a new micro-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining...

The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to employment protection laws. Major employment laws are reviewed, as are the significant exceptions to the laws, and exemptions to the exceptions. Major regulatory actions, as...

This article investigates how changing production processes and increasing market power at the firm level relate to a fall in Germany's manufacturing sector labour share. Coinciding with the fall of the labour share, I document a rise in firms' product and labour market power. Notably, labour...

From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is...

Eine Befragung von 1.553 Unternehmen der Metall- und Elektro-Industrie über ihre Einstellung zur Tarifbindung ergab, dass zwei Drittel der Unternehmen mit ihrer Flächentarifvertragsbindung zufrieden sind. Unter den Unternehmen mit einem Haustarifvertrag sind es sogar vier von fünf. Kritisch...

Studies often conclude that the proposed Southern African Development Community monetary union would be disastrous and not optimal for all member countries. This is because of the observed low, and sometimes negative business cycle correlation amongst member countries. However, it has been...

This paper empirically examines how wage growth in Turkey has been influenced by workdays lost to strikes, by inflation and by real GDP through the vector autoregression model for the annual period 1963-2015. According to empirical results, wage growth is largely affected by workdays lost to...