and firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany … multi-employer collective bargaining clearly dominates in Germany. Econometric analyses show that more or less the same set …

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … 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 cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear “shadow of death” effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …