What can we learn from bargaining models about union power?: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992-2009

Boris Hirsch; Claus Schnabel

doi:10.1111/manc.12028

What can we learn from bargaining models about union power? The decline in union power in Germany, 1992-2009

Boris Hirsch
, Claus Schnabel

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › Begutachtung

16 Zitate (Scopus)

Abstract

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 taking account of taxation, unemployment benefits, and the labour market situation and confronts this indicator with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power did not change much from 1992 to 2002 but fell markedly (by about one-third) from 2002 to 2007 in the aftermath of substantial labour market reforms.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Zeitschrift	The Manchester School
Jahrgang	82
Ausgabenummer	3
Seiten (von - bis)	347-362
Seitenumfang	16
ISSN	1463-6786
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12028
Publikationsstatus	Erschienen - 06.2014
Extern publiziert	Ja

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