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| Title: | | Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009  |
| Authors: | | Hirsch, Boris Schnabel, Claus |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5875 |
| 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 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201108093027 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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