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MPIfG Report 1999–2002
gies of organized labor and capital in social policy making
and self-administration. Taking the case of early retirement,
the project studies the interests of the social partners in externalizing
social costs, as well as their role in current reform efforts.
Both employers and trade unions have colluded in using
“early exit” as a labor shedding strategy in the past. The project
explains on the one hand the diverse national trajectories
of early exit from work as a consequence of the interplay of
the “pull” of welfare regimes, “the push” of production systems,
and the mediation between the social partners. On the
other hand, the project aims to analyze the varying capacities
of the social partners to block reforms and the conditions
under which they are willing to cooperate with the government
in reforming social policy. Project duration: January
1997 to November 2002.
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Exit from Labor: Reforming Early Retirement and Social Partnership
in Europe, Japan, and the USA. Habilitation thesis. University
of Cologne, Department of Social Sciences, 2002, 401 pp.
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
When Labour and Capital Collude: The Political Economy of
Early Retirement in Europe, Japan, and the USA. In: Bernhard
Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow (eds.), Comparing Welfare Capitalism:
Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan
and the USA. London, New York: Routledge, 2001, 76–101
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Reforming the Welfare State Through “Old” or “New” Social
Partnerships? In: Carsten Kjaergaard and Sven-Åge Westphalen
(eds.), From Collective Bargaining to Social Partnerships.
Copenhagen: The Copenhagen Centre, 2001, 103–120
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Any Way Out of “Exit from Work”? Reversing the Entrenched
Pathways of Early Retirement. In: Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien
A. Schmidt (eds.), Welfare and Work in the Open Economy. Vol.
II: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000, 511–553
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Does a European Model Exist and Can it Survive? In: Gerhard
Huemer, Michael Mesch, and Franz Traxler (eds.), The Role of
Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 1999, 1–26
Payment Systems under the Impact of
Internationalization: Compensation Schemes
in Large German Companies
Antje Kurdelbusch
Payment systems in Germany are changing. There is a noticeable
trend towards a higher share of variable wage components
compared to fixed pay. Bonus payments contingent on
a company’s performance and on individual workers’ achievements
are becoming more common, and so are employee
ownership plans and innovative forms of fringe benefits. Can
this trend be observed across the board, or is it company-specific?
Are wage regimes and wages becoming more differentiated
within and between companies? To what extent can these
changing patterns be attributed to economic internationalization?
Are the new payment systems consistent with centralized
collective bargaining, which aims at a homogeneous wage
structure, or will the bargaining system have to adjust? This
doctoral project uses quantitative methods to analyze a sample
of the 100 largest German companies, examining their pay
systems and their degree of internationalization. Complementary
case studies will illustrate the consequences of new
compensation schemes on the German system of industrial
relations. Project duration: January 1999 to May 2002.
Main project: The Impact of Internationalization on German
Industrial Relations
Antje Kurdelbusch
Variable Vergütung in deutschen Großunternehmen: Entgeltsysteme
zwischen Flexibilisierung und Flächentarifvertrag.
Doctoral thesis. University of Bochum, Department of Social
Sciences, 2002
Antje Kurdelbusch
Variable Vergütung bedeutet Wettbewerb und Risiko. In: Die
Mitbestimmung, No. 6/2001, Der neue Arbeit-auf-sich-nehmer-Geist,
22–25 (2001)
Anke Hassel, Martin Höpner, Antje Kurdelbusch, Britta Rehder,
Rainer Zugehör
Two Dimensions of the Internationalization of Firms. MPIfG
Working Paper 01/3. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the
Study of Societies, 2001. Online:
Anke Hassel, Martin Höpner, Antje Kurdelbusch, Britta Rehder,
Rainer Zugehör
Zwei Dimensionen der Internationalisierung: Eine empirische
Analyse deutscher Großunternehmen. In: Kölner Zeitschrift
für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Vol. 52, No. 3,
500–519 (2000)
Anke Hassel, Martin Höpner, Antje Kurdelbusch, Britta Rehder,
Rainer Zugehör
Dimensionen der Internationalisierung: Ergebnisse der Unternehmensdatenbank
“Internationalisierung der 100 größten
Unternehmen in Deutschland”. MPIfG Working Paper 00/1.
Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies,
2000. Online:
Company-Level Employment Pacts and the
Transformation of the German System of
Industrial Relations
Britta Rehder
For several decades the German system of industrial relations
has been marked by a high degree of regulation. Central wage
agreements protect employees from market fluctuations, and