Collective bargaining coverage, works councils and the new German minimum wage
| Autor: | Mario Bossler, Olaf Hübler, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Lutz Bellmann |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Labour economics Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Collective bargaining Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Anthropologie::320 | Politik 01 natural sciences General Business Management and Accounting language.human_language German 010104 statistics & probability Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft industrial relations Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business ddc:320 language Economics ddc:330 050207 economics 0101 mathematics Minimum wage Industrial relations works councils |
| Zdroj: | Economic and Industrial Democracy 42 (2021), Nr. 2 Economic and Industrial Democracy |
| Popis: | This article assesses the role of the recent introduction of the minimum wage for collective bargaining coverage and works councils in Germany. The new minimum wage was initiated to strengthen German tariff autonomy, but effects on collective bargaining coverage are theoretically ambivalent. Using the IAB Establishment Panel, descriptive regressions show that firms covered by a collective bargaining contract are much less likely affected by the minimum wage. To construct a counterfactual for the group of affected establishments, the authors apply an entropy balancing procedure. Subsequent difference-in-differences estimates reveal a slight decline in collective bargaining participation, which falls short of statistical significance. Although the effect on opting into collective bargaining is even slightly positive, the authors observe a significant decrease in coverage through firms that exit collective agreements. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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