Im ersten Halbjahr 2024 fanden in zwanzig näher untersuchten Branchen des IW-Tarifmonitorings insgesamt 23 Tarifverhandlungen statt. Eine Analyse zeigt, dass es in vielen dieser Verhandlungen sehr konfliktreich zuging. Die maximale Eskalationsstufe - sie gibt auf einer 7-stufigen Skala an, bis...

The conservative central banker has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an...

Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet...

This article discusses the current characteristics of trade unionism in Italy. First, however, attention is paid to the initial imprinting of the model, which stemmed from the circumstances in which the trade unions were reconstituted at the end of WWII, and whose far-reaching consequences are...

Existing work on wage bargaining (as exemplified by Cukierman and Lippi, 2001) typically predicts more aggressive wage setting under monetary union. This insight has not been confirmed by the EMU experience, which has been characterised by wage moderation, thereby eliciting criticism from Posen...

Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...

Eine funktionale Arbeitsteilung bei zugleich enger Kooperation zwischen Betriebsräten und Gewerkschaften ist wichtig für die Stabilität des Gesamtsystems industrieller Beziehungen in Deutschland. Tatsächlich arbeiten Betriebsräte und Gewerkschaften in der Praxis häufig eng zusammen,...

Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation of the union good increases union take-up, while increased union fees reduce the demand for...

Die Fallstudie geht der Frage nach, warum die Arbeitgeberverbände der Metall- und Elektroindustrie seit Beginn der 2000er Jahre keine neuen Mitglieder mehr generieren können sowie dem damit verbundenen Bedeutungsverlust der Flächentarifverträge in dieser Branche. Gefragt und analysiert...