We analyse the interaction between different labour market institutions in Germany, a country with a long tradition of strong bargaining partners. A number of studies have established that industry-level bargaining exerts a moderating role on firm-level co-determination: works councils generate...

This paper analyses the link between offshoring in German plants and the offshoring potential of their employees. We use information on the offshoring potential of jobs from representative task data and merge it with linked employer-employee data, for which information on different modes of...

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and firm survival, especially in industrialised countries, and where they are traditionally strong. Their impact depends on the institutional role unions (can) play in different...

A popular soccer myth states that teams affected by a sending-off perform better than they would have performed without the penalty. Based on economic theory, we analyze the course of soccer matches using data from the German Bundesliga from 1999 to 2009. The results show that sending-offs...

A major goal of the reform of the German Temporary Employment Act (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz, AÜG) on April 1, 2017, was to strengthen collective bargaining autonomy. This paper uses quantitative and qualitative methods to show whether and to what extent this goal has been achieved and...

Das Entgelttransparenzgesetz soll dazu beitragen, das Gebot des gleichen Entgelts für Frauenund Männer bei gleicher oder gleichwertiger Arbeit durchzusetzen. Nach der zweiten Evaluationwird deutlich, dass dies mit den vorhandenen Instrumenten des Gesetzes nicht erreicht wird.Ohne größere...