Die Tarifverhandlungen standen im Jahr 2020 unter dem Einfluss der Pandemie. Die Lohnerhöhungen fielen moderat aus und die Konfliktintensität war die niedrigste seit dem Jahr 2005. Die verschiedenen Konflikthandlungen in Tarifauseinandersetzungen, zum Beispiel Streikdrohungen, Warnstreiks,...

In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist die Tarifbindung seit der Jahrtausendwende dramatisch gesunken: Derzeit gilt nur noch für 44 % der Beschäftigten im Land ein Tarifvertrag. Dies hat für die Beschäftigten spürbare Auswirkungen - ins-besondere bei den Löhnen, die bei tariflosen Arbeitgebern rund...

The well-known positive relationship between the unemployment benefit level and unemployment duration can be separated into two potential sources; a moral hazard effect, and a liquidity effect pertaining to the increased ability to smooth consumption. The latter is a socially optimal response...

We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For this we use merged populationwide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national medical birth register and intergenerational link registers...

Im Gesetzentwurf vom 28. Mai 2014 wird die Einführung eines flächendeckenden gesetzlichen Mindestlohns damit begründet, dass die Beschäftigten vor unangemessen niedrigen Löhnen geschützt würden. Gleichzeitig werde dafür gesorgt, dass der Wettbewerb zwischen den Unternehmen nicht zu...

This paper documents the evolution of sector-level collective agreements in Italy and estimates the wage effects of the diffusion of non-representative agreements, often signed by unknown organisations i.e. pirate agreements. Using employer-employee data from Social Security Archives, we find...

"Auf den ersten Blick scheint sich die Tarifbindung im Land Bremen mit 55 Prozent der Beschäftigten etwa im gesamtdeutschen Durchschnitt zu bewegen. Bei den Betrieben liegt Bremen hingegen mit nur 17 Prozent Tarifbindung unter allen Bundesländern auf dem vorletzten Platz.Mit einem relativ...

Die positive Tariflohnentwicklung hat im vergangenen Jahr die Lohnentwicklung und Binnennachfrage in Europa gestützt und damit das Wachstum stabilisiert. Mit dem Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie hat sich jedoch das wirtschaftliche Umfeld für die Tarifpolitik schlagartig dramatisch verändert:...

Die Corona-Ausbrüche in einigen großen deutschen Fleischbetrieben haben die seit Langem bekannten Missstände in der Branche wieder in den Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt. Mit dem nun vorgelegten Arbeitsschutzkontrollgesetz und dem darin vorgesehenen Verbot von Werkverträgen und...

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

Many governments extend the coverage of collective agreements to workers and employ- ers that were not involved in their bargaining. These extensions may address coordination issues but may also distort competition by imposing sector-specific minimum wages and other work conditions that are not...

How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In this paper we propose a methodology to address this question: we compare the specific contents of collective agreements (except minimum wages) to their equivalent norms set by...

Aktuelle Erhebungen machen deutlich: Der Stress am Arbeitsplatz nimmt vielerorts zu - und mit ihm die Belastungen. Neben den traditionellen Gefahren sind in den letzten Jahren vermehrt psychosoziale Risiken und Burnout am Arbeitsplatz in den Vordergrund der öffentlichen Diskussion getreten....

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

In many European countries, wages are determined by collective bargaining agreements intended to improve wages and reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries have similar geographical differences in firm...

Sachsen bildet mit einer Tarifbindung von 39 Prozent der Beschäftigten und 15 Prozent der Betriebe von allen Bundesländern mit Abstand das Schlusslicht in Deutschland. Dies gilt, obwohl die sächsische Wirtschaftsstruktur mit seinen industriellen Kernen eine höhere Tarifbindung eher...

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

"Analyzes the expansion and restriction of public sector collective bargaining rights in the United States over a 50 year period. Grounded in research on the policy process and labor unions, this book argues that the politics of restriction are different from the politics of expansion."

In this paper, we employ the agent-based macroeconomic Eurace@Unibi model to study the economic implications of different degrees of de-centralization in the wage setting. We think of de-centralization as wages being a weighted average of an economy-wide "union wage" and a firm-specific...

Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as...

The well-known positive relationship between the unemployment benefit level and unemployment duration can be separated into two potential sources; a moral hazard effect, and a liquidity effect pertaining to the increased ability to smooth consumption. The latter is a socially optimal response...

This paper examines empirically the dynamics of wage floors defined in industry-level wage agreements in France. It also investigates how industry-level wage floor adjustment interacts with changes in the national minimum wage (NMW hereafter). For this, we have collected a unique dataset of...

Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal - a country with near-universal union coverage - we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and...

Die Tarifbindung befindet sich in Bayern wie in Deutschland insgesamt in einem anhaltenden Erosionsprozess. Bayern bildet aktuell mit einer Tarifbindung von 53 Prozent der Beschäftigten und 26 Prozent der Betriebe das Schlusslicht der westdeutschen Bundesländer. Immer mehr Beschäftigten...

How do firm-level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi-level bargaining system? Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity (with respect to sector-level agreements). Relying on a...

Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as...