The Demise of a Model? The State of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation in Germany

John Addison, Alex Bryson, Paulino Teixeira, André Pahnke and Lutz Bellmann
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Lutz Bellmann: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, and IZA

No 2011-09, GEMF Working Papers from GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Abstract: This paper investigates trends in collective bargaining and worker representation in the German private sector from 2000 to 2008. It seeks to update and widen earlier analyses pointing to a decline in collective bargaining, while providing more information on the dual system as a whole. Using data from the IAB Employment Panel and the German Employment Register, we report evidence of a systematic and continuing erosion of the dual system. Not unnaturally the decline is led by developments in western Germany. One conjecture is that the path of erosion will continue until rough and ready convergence is reached with eastern Germany in a sharp reversal of other post-unification trends.

Keywords: Trends in collective bargaining and worker representation; Transitions, establishment data. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J51 J53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2011-05
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Published in Economic and Industrial Democracy, Volume 38, Issue 2, pages 193–234, 2017.

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