Collective Agreement Status and Survivability: Change and Persistence in the German Model

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Alex Bryson and André Pahnke

No 2011-15, GEMF Working Papers from GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Abstract: This paper assesses the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and longitudinal data from the IAB Establishment Panel, it indicates the overwhelming importance of behavioral as opposed to compositional change in this process. Further, in the first use of survival analysis for the purpose, it also charts workplace transitions into and out of collective bargaining. In addition to providing new estimates of the median duration of coverage, the paper reports on the factors generating entry into and exit from collective bargaining. These influences are found to be distinct but symmetric.

Keywords: collective agreement coverage; bargaining transitions; survivability; Germany. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J50 J53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2011-09
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Published in LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 27(3): 288-309, 2013.

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