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
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Online-Ressource, 31 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
- Bibliographic citation
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WSI-Diskussionspapier ; Bd. 171
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Wirtschaft
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Veröffentlichung
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Düsseldorf
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2010
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Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-219080
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Bispinck, Reinhard
- Dribbusch, Heiner
- Schulten, Thorsten
- Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Time of origin
- 2010
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Europeanisation of collective bargaining : an overview on trade union initiatives for a transnational coordination of collective bargaining policy
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Globalisation and the future of central collective bargaining : the example of the German metal industry
Cross border collective bargaining networks in Europe : new approaches to European coordination of national collective bargaining policy in the metalworking industry ; paper presented at the 4th European Sociology Conference "Will Europe Work?", Amsterdam, 18th - 21st August 1999
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Internationalismus von unten : europäische Betriebsräte in transnationalen Konzernen
Minimum wage regimes in Europe : ... and what Germany can learn from them
Collective bargaining under the conditions of European monetary union : some remarks on the creation of a European multi-level collective bargaining system using the example of the Western European metalworking industry ; paper presented at the 11th IIRA world congress, 22 - 26 September 1998 Bologna, Italy
Upgrading German public services : The role of trade union campaigns and collective bargaining with regard to working conditions in day care centres, primary education and hospitals
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Europeanisation of collective bargaining: an overview on trade union initiatives for a transnational coordination of collective bargaining policy
Europeanisation of collective bargaining : an overview on trade union initiatives for a transnational coordination of collective bargaining policy
Unemployment, wages and collective bargaining in the European Union
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