Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35954 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4502
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present paper maps changes in the importance of the key institutions, 1998-2004, and explores the correlates of two-way transitions, using successive waves of the German IAB Establishment Panel and both cross-sectional and panel components of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey. We identify the workplace correlates of the demise of collective bargaining in Britain and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional change.
Subjects: 
Union recognition
union coverage
sectoral and firm-level collective bargaining
works councils
joint consultative committees
changes in collective bargaining/worker representation states
bargaining transitions and their determinants
JEL: 
J50
J53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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