14
Nov
2016
14:15
- 15:45
IWH Research Seminar
Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Germany
Wer
Daniel Baumgarten
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Wo
IWH conference room
We analyse whether the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe has been a driver of the severe decline in collective bargaining coverage rates among German establishments from the mid 1990s onwards, which has been identified as a major source of rising wage inequality in Germany.