- Home
- Publications
- The Extent Of Collective Bargaining And Workplace Representation: Transitions Between States And Their Determinants: A Comparative Analysis Of Germany And Britain
The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Britain
Authors
External Authors
Addison, J. A.; Teixeira, P.; Pahnke, A.; and Bellmann, L.
Related Themes
Labour, Employment and WagesJournal
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
External Resources
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjpe.12007/abstract
The institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation are eroding in many nations, not least in Germany and Britain. This is the first paper to explore transitions into and out of these arrangements. Using successive waves of the German IAB Establishment Panel and both cross-sectional and panel components of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey for the period 1998-2004, we find industrial relations are in flux, with many workplaces switching into and out of collective bargaining and other agencies of worker representation, respectively works councils in Germany and joint consultative committees in Britain. Yet although there are some commonalities in behaviour, the driving forces behind the decline in collective bargaining differ markedly in the two countries.
Related Blog Posts
Breaking Down the Different Types of Pension in the UK
Robyn Smith
Adrian Pabst
25 Mar 2024
6 min read
What Are the Implications of the Rising National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage Rates?
Ekaterina Aleynikova
Adrian Pabst
19 Mar 2024
5 min read
How Changes in Migration Policy Could Boost Scotland’s Economy
Max Mosley
Ekaterina Aleynikova
18 Dec 2023
3 min read
Related Projects
Related News
Press Release: Compositional effects push up average weekly earnings at the end of 2020
26 Jan 2021
2 min read
Press Release: 2020 shaping up to be the worst year for total pay growth since 2009
15 Dec 2020
2 min read
Related Publications
Pay-Setting Among Employers in the Agriculture, Cleaning, Hospitality and Retail Sectors
11 Mar 2024
Research Report
Job Boom or Job Bust? The Effect of the Pandemic on Actual and Measured Job and Employment Growth
07 Feb 2024
UK Economic Outlook Box Analysis