The demise of a model? The state of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany
本文利用德国企业面板数据，研究了2000年以来私营部门集体谈判的下降趋势，发现行业谈判和工人委员会均持续萎缩，而企业级谈判增长有限，新成立和关闭的企业并非主因，但新政府政策可能带来转机。
This article investigates collective bargaining trends in the German private sector since 2000. Using data from the IAB Establishment Panel and the German Establishment History Panel, it provides both cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence on these developments. It confirms that the hemorrhaging of sectoral bargaining, first observed in the 1980s and 1990s, is ongoing. Furthermore, works councils are also in decline, so that the dual system also displays erosion. For their part, any increases in collective bargaining at firm level have been minimal in recent years, while the behavior of newly-founded and closing establishments does not seem to lie at the root of a burgeoning collective bargaining free sector. Although there are few obvious signs of an organic reversal of the process, some revitalization of the bargaining system from above is implied by the labor policies of the new coalition government.