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• Trade Union Decline and What Next. Is Germany a Special Case?**/Gewerkschaftlicher Niedergang Und Was Dann? Ist Deutschland Ein Besonderer Fall?

This paper commences with a survey of international trends in union membership, union density and collective bargaining, while focusing on the comparative position of trade unions in Germany. The author considers three hypotheses concerning the development of unionism in recent decades. The first one is that globalisation and structural change in the economy and labour market pull all countries towards a neo-liberal convergence of which union decline is one manifestation. The second predicts that resilient national institutions of collective bargaining and union-employer cooperation enable continued divergence in unionization levels across Western economies. The third one, which seems particularly relevant for Germany, states that feedback mechanisms from internal diversity among both e...

...Of the G7, only in Canada did unions weather the storm relatively well, espe... towards a market economy, it is clear that wages in the private sector are decided at company level... of the level and changes of the minimum wage decided by the government, sometimes after co...

• Industrielle Beziehungen
• Band 14 Nr. 2, April 2007

• German Tax and Legal News

...Canada, on the other hand, had exempted her from Canadia...The Luxembourg wages were taxed there, but were to be taken into accou...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Germany Law Articles in English

• The Management of Human Resources in the Asia Pacific: Into the 21st Century**

... in Western countries by cushioning real wages but at the cost of a huge trade imbalance in the c... just to keep unemployment levels to a minimum (see Lee/Warner 2006). In this Introduction, as we... country in total area (after Russia, Canada, and the US); has a good share of the planet's nat...

• Management Revue
• Band 18 Nr. 4, Januar 2007