probabilities of having a works council or a collective bargaining agreement. We show that family firms which are solely, partially … or not managed by the owners significantly differ in the presence of works councils and collective bargaining agreements …

German IR model over the last 20 years. It shows that collective bargaining coverage and worker representation via works … exporting plants. In contrast, more than 60% of German plants did not exhibit bargaining coverage or orientation or any kind of …

employer densities as well as bargaining coverage are falling. Despite this erosion, collective agreements are still relevant … bound by collective agreements. Empirical studies show that the social partners and collective bargaining exert a …

analyzed both separately and together. The estimation results show that bargaining theories as well as incentive theories play …

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed …. -- Trade union power ; wage bargaining ; labour share ; Germany …

bargaining in the matching pro-cess from the employer’s side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German … negotiating. Wage bar-gaining is more likely for more-educated applicants and in jobs with special requirements as well as in …

centralized bargaining agreements indeed have economically and statistically significantly larger total factor productivities and … scale elasticities than comparable establishments outside the centralized bargaining regime. …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … positive and negative economic shocks are not always symmetric. Only under sectoral bargaining there is a (nearly symmetric …) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts …

restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …-employer agreements are significantly less likely to have wage cushions. -- wages ; wage cushion ; wage determination ; bargaining …