German Trade Unions After Unification: Third Degree Wage Discriminating Monopolists?

Michael Burda and Michael Funke

No 573, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: After unification, real wages in Eastern Germany rose rapidly relative to labour productivity despite high and rising levels of unemployment. This substantial increase in wage levels relative to those in Western Germany is difficult to explain without recourse to models of union behaviour or collective bargaining. This paper applies and extends such models and evaluates plausible explanations for recent short-run wage developments in the ex-GDR.

Keywords: German Unification; Labour Unions; Migration; Wage Determination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J51 J61 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991-08
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (20)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=573 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:573

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.cepr.org/ ... pers/dp.php?dpno=573

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().