trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

Germany from 1980 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce … variables such as age, public sector employment and being a blue collar worker (significant in western Germany only). A … decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and between eastern and western Germany to a large degree …

With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …

This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany … of Germany. …