TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Addison, John T.
AU  - Bryson, Alex
AU  - Teixeira, Paulino
AU  - Pahnke, André
AU  - Bellmann, Lutz
        TI  - The State of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation in Germany: The Erosion Continues
        PY  - 2010/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5030
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5030
        AB  - This paper investigates trends in collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany from 2000 to 2008. It seeks to update and widen earlier analyses pointing to a decline in collective bargaining, while providing more information on the dual system as a whole. Using data from the IAB Employment Panel and the German Employment Register, we report evidence of a systematic and continuing erosion of the dual system. Not unnaturally the decline is led by developments in western Germany. Arguably, the path of erosion will continue until rough and ready convergence is reached with eastern Germany. Expressed differently, if the process of decentralization underpinning these developments once was ‘regulated’ it no longer appears to be so.
        KW  - erosion of the dual system
KW  - collective bargaining/works council coverage
KW  - eastern and western Germany
KW  - institutional transitions
KW  - permanent stayers
KW  - newly-founded firms
KW  - closing/failing firms
        ER  -