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Title: German Trade Unions After Unification: Third Degree Wage Discriminating Monopolists?

Author(s): Michael C Burda and Michael Funke

Publication Date: August 1991

Keyword(s): German Unification, Labour Unions, Migration and Wage Determination

Programme Area(s): Applied Macroeconomics

Abstract: After unification, real wages in Eastern Germany rose rapidly relative to labour productivity despite high and rising levels of unemployment. This substantial increase in wage levels relative to those in Western Germany is difficult to explain without recourse to models of union behaviour or collective bargaining. This paper applies and extends such models and evaluates plausible explanations for recent short-run wage developments in the ex-GDR.

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Burda, M and Funke, M. 1991. 'German Trade Unions After Unification: Third Degree Wage Discriminating Monopolists?'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=573