From Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar: Germany's Resurgent Economy

By Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Uta Schönberg, Alexandra Spitz-Oener. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Throwing Out the Ballast: Growth Models and the Liberalization of German Industrial Relations (2016, background): “The Hartz reforms encouraged unions and works councils in the manufacturing sector to bargain around wage flexibility and other internal flexibility measures to increase the prospects for job security of core workers (Eichhorst and Marx, 2011).”
Globalization and Its (Dis-)Content: Trade Shocks and Voting Behavior (2015, positive): “In particular, firms and local labor union chapters were given far more freedom to deviate from the collective bargaining straightjacket if local conditions dictated this, see (Dustmann et al., 2014).”
The Effect of Unemployment Benefits and Nonemployment Durations on Wages (2016, background): “However, these institutions have become weaker over time with a substantial decline in collective bargaining (Dustmann et al. (2014)).”
Varieties of capitalism in light of the euro crisis (2018, background): “The Viségrad nations secured especially key positions within the value chains supplying German industry that might otherwise have gone to Southern Europe (Dustmann et al. 2014).”
Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany (2017, background): “This changed after 2005, where the country entered a phase of robust positive employment growth that was even mostly unaffected by the great recession (Dustmann et al. 2014).”
German Robots - The Impact of Industrial Robots on Workers (2017, background): “…of negative shocks in order to keep jobs.34 This flexibility of unions, and the resulting wage restraints, are actually one of the leading hypotheses for the strong overall performance of the German labor market (the "employment miracle") since the mid-2000s (see, e.g., Dustmann et al. 2014).”
The Eurozone and Political Economic Institutions (2016, background): “…wage increases, and work councils representing workers in large German companies agreed to more flexible wages and working hours in exchange for increased employment security and continuing management investment in capital equipment and worker training (Carlin & Soskice 2009, Dustmann et al. 2014).”