Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52069 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5875
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively stable in the 1990s but fell substantially (by almost one-third) from 1999 to 2007. Two-thirds of this fall in union power follow from the reduction in the labour share relative to the capital share whereas changes in the gap between the net wage and the income when unemployed account for the remaining third.
Subjects: 
trade union power
wage bargaining
labour share
Germany
JEL: 
J50
J51
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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