Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55062 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5987
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and longitudinal data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show the overwhelming importance of behavioral as opposed to compositional change and, for the first time, document workplace transitions into and out of collective agreements via survival analysis. We provide estimates of the median duration of coverage, and report that the factors generating entry and exit are distinct and symmetric.
Subjects: 
sectoral and firm agreements
changes in collective bargaining/works council coverage
shift-share analysis
bargaining transitions
survivability
JEL: 
J50
J53
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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