Pay developments in Britain and Germany: Collective bargaining, 'benchmarking', and 'mimetic wages

European Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-109

  Schmidt, Werner ^a,c   Dworschak, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IAO   (Germany)

^c Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit Technik und Kultur FATK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Cross country comparison; Germany; Industrial relations; Pay determination; Pay developments; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745660347     PISSN: 09596801     EISSN: 14617129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959680106061370     Document Type: Article

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