Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Wage effects of works councils and opening clauses: the German case
"German employment relations are characterized by a distinct dual system. First, working conditions and wages are determined by industry-level collective bargaining agreements. Second, on the establishment-level, the works council is responsible for employer - employee negotiations. However, since the mid-1980s, an increasing number of areas of regulation have been transferred from the industry- to the establishment-level using so-called opening clauses. The analysis in this article relies on rich German establishment data and reveals new insights into the institutional machinery of wage bargaining. While the existence of such clauses is related to higher wages, their application results in wage cuts of roughly the same size. The results also suggest that works councils, on average, are able to prevent the negative wage effects of opening clauses." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
- ISSN
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0143-831X
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 95-113
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Economic and Industrial Democracy, 35(1)
- Thema
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Soziologie, Anthropologie
Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
institutionelle Faktoren
industrielle Beziehungen
Betriebsvereinbarung
Tarifverhandlung
Tarifvertrag
Betriebsrat
Panel
Einkommenseffekt
Flexibilität
Dezentralisation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ellguth, Peter
Gerner, Hans-Dieter
Stegmaier, Jens
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Vereinigtes Königreich
- (wann)
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2014
- DOI
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Ellguth, Peter
- Gerner, Hans-Dieter
- Stegmaier, Jens
Entstanden
- 2014