TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Addison, John T.
AU  - Teixeira, Paulino
AU  - Evers, Katalin
AU  - Bellmann, Lutz
        TI  - Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany
        PY  - 2013/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7474
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7474
        AB  - This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union differential based on separate samples of collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the corresponding counterfactual groups. It is reported that average wages increase by 3 to 3.5 percent after entering into a collective agreement and decrease by 3 to 4 percent after abandoning a collective agreement. Excluding establishments that experience mass layoffs little influences these net findings, although such establishments record wage losses – statistically insignificant for joiners but up to 10 percent in the case of leavers, as compared with the counterfactuals. The backdrop to these new indicative estimates, which are properly conditioned on establishment size and industry affiliation, inter al., is one of wage stagnation and continuing union decline.
        KW  - difference-in-differences
KW  - collective bargaining transitions
KW  - union contract premium
KW  - average wages
KW  - matching
KW  - Germany
        ER  -