German collective bargaining in a European perspective: continuous erosion or re-stabilisation of multi-employer agreements?

Abstract: "Since the mid-1990s the German system of collective bargaining with its traditional dominance of sector-level agreements has been faced by a process of creeping ero-sion. While the bargaining coverage has shown a steady decline, a far-reaching de-centralisation has increasingly undermined the system of multi-employer bargaining. Compared with other European countries, the development in Germany seems to be rather ex-ceptional, as many countries were able to continue with a rather stable collective bargaining system and a relatively high bargaining coverage. This holds true also for countries where - as in Germany - the unions were faced by a significant decline of organisational power. The latter indicates that there are other political factors which seem to compensate for the decline of unions' organisational power and keep their institutional power basis relatively stable. In discussing German collective bargaining in a European perspective it is the aim of this paper to identif

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 31 S.
Sprache
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion

Erschienen in
WSI-Diskussionspapier ; Bd. 171

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

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(wo)
Düsseldorf
(wann)
2010
Urheber
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-219080
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