The erosion of union membership in Germany: determinants, densities, decompositions

By Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn, Qingwei Wang. Social Science Research Network, 2006

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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. And Germany (2018, background): “Hence, the strong deunionization (see Dustmann et al., 2009; Fitzenberger et al., 2010) is likely to have contributed to the increase in inequality at the bottom of the wage distribution since the mid-1990s.”
Union membership and density: Some (not so) stylized facts and challenges (2013, result): “Further decomposition studies by Schnabel and Wagner (2007b) and Fitzenberger et al. (2011) show that changes in the composition of the workforce have played a minor role for the fall in union density in West and East Germany.”
Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure? (2009, background): “This finding confirms the assessment in Goos and Manning (2007) (sections VII–VIII) that the polarization hypothesis derived from the task–based approach of Autor et al.”
The Labor Market Impact of Immigration: A Quasi-Experiment Exploiting Immigrant Location Rules in Germany (2012, background): “31 In addition, wages in Germany are to a large extent set by sector-level collective wage agreements, leaving little room for wage adjustments on the regional level, in particular for men, who are much more likely than women to be union members (Fitzenberger et al., 2011), and who tend to work in s”