bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent …

The paper examines the implications for wage bargaining of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work …, centralized bargaining becomes increasingly inefficient and detrimental to firms' profit opportunities, since it prevents firms … centralized bargaining inhibits firms from using wages to induce workers to learn how to use their experience from one set of …

Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the …

Italy is not immune from the long term trend towards greater bargaining decentralization under way in Western Europe … bargaining. Empirical evidence shows that firm-level bargaining has been associated with innovative managerial practices, but … enforcement, iii) limited scope for action of second level bargaining in determining both wages and work organization. The …

Recent studies have pointed to the association between declining collective bargaining coverage and rising overall wage …

, consultation procedures, wage bargaining mechanisms, bullying and equality polices etc were found to have little impact on the …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an …-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners and never members on the one hand and collective bargaining leavers and always members …