Collective bargaining agreements still play an important role in the German wage setting system. Both existing theoretical and empirical studies find that collective bargaining leads to higher wages compared to individually agreed ones. However, the impact of collective bargaining on the wage level may be very different along the wage distribution. As unions aim at compressing the wage distribution, one might expect that for covered workers? wages in the lower part of the distribution workers? individual characteristics may be less important than the coverage by a collective contract. In contrast, the relative importance of workers? individual characteristics may rise in the upper part of the wage distribution, whereas the overall wage diff...
Purpose – This paper aims to map some of the diversity in employee relations in Germany that is over...
"Der vorliegende Aufsatz analysiert wettbewerbsbeschränkende Wirkungen, die von allgemeinverbindlich...
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective ...
Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001, this paper pr...
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; coll...
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective ...
Using a large-scale linked-employer-employee data set from western Germany, this paper presents new...
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; coll...
"The authors use German linked employer-employee data for the years 1990, 1995 and 2001 to analyze, ...
Collective wage agreements still play an important role in the German wage bargaining system. Howeve...
Collective wage agreements still play an important role in the German wage bargaining system. Howeve...
This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Part...
The paper investigates the influence of three different wage-setting regimes (industry-wide collecti...
This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Part...
There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In th...
Purpose – This paper aims to map some of the diversity in employee relations in Germany that is over...
"Der vorliegende Aufsatz analysiert wettbewerbsbeschränkende Wirkungen, die von allgemeinverbindlich...
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective ...
Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001, this paper pr...
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; coll...
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective ...
Using a large-scale linked-employer-employee data set from western Germany, this paper presents new...
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; coll...
"The authors use German linked employer-employee data for the years 1990, 1995 and 2001 to analyze, ...
Collective wage agreements still play an important role in the German wage bargaining system. Howeve...
Collective wage agreements still play an important role in the German wage bargaining system. Howeve...
This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Part...
The paper investigates the influence of three different wage-setting regimes (industry-wide collecti...
This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Part...
There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In th...
Purpose – This paper aims to map some of the diversity in employee relations in Germany that is over...
"Der vorliegende Aufsatz analysiert wettbewerbsbeschränkende Wirkungen, die von allgemeinverbindlich...
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective ...