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Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009

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.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: Diskussionspapiere ; No. 73

Classification: Wirtschaft
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

Subject: trade union power
wage bargaining
labour share
Germany
Tarifpolitik
Lohnverhandlungstheorie
Verhandlungsmacht
Gewerkschaft
Schätzung
Deutschland

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Hirsch, Boris
Schnabel, Claus

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik

(where): Nürnberg

(when): 2011

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50506

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Hirsch, Boris
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik

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