Membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, vol. 44, issue 3, 798-826

Abstract: While there is a strong overlap between membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage, the overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, this study estimates the determinants of the membership in employers’ associations and the coverage by industry-level or firm-level agreements. The analysis particularly focuses on the various constellations of membership and collective bargaining status. The results show that firm-level worker representation, foreign ownership, work organization, firm size, age and East–West differences are important determinants. Altogether, the analysis demonstrates that a more differentiated picture of industrial relations can be obtained by considering both membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage.

Keywords: Employers’ associations; firm-level bargaining; industry-level bargaining; foreign ownership; union density; works councils (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X221092484

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