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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Britain


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Addison, J. A.; Teixeira, P.; Pahnke, A.; and Bellmann, L.
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Labour, Employment and WagesJournal
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
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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.
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