DOI: 10.1177/09596801231185753 ISSN: 0959-6801
Public sector employment relations: Germany in comparative perspective
Berndt Keller- Management of Technology and Innovation
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Strategy and Management
- General Business, Management and Accounting
The paper asks for the contribution of growth models for the explanation of public sector employment relations in Germany. The paper is subdivided into three parts. The first elaborates on long-term developments as well as forms of employment. The second part analyzes wage setting systems, that is, bilateral collective bargaining for employees and unilateral decision-making for civil servants. The third part compares the empirical outcomes of both sub-systems with the assumptions of growth models and distinguished explicitly various concepts of the state as corporate actor.