WSI-Mitteilungen

Collective bargaining coverage and the representation by works and staff councils have gradually but steadily declined in recent years. In 2024, around 43 % of employees in West Germany and around 31 % of employees in East Germany worked in a...

Legal dogma defined collective bargaining autonomy as “the delegation of legislative powers” well into the 1990s. Today, according to the prevailing opinion in jurisprudence, it is seen as “collectively exercised private autonomy”. This...

The article analyses China’s integration into the global economy and asks what impact it has on global economic regulation. Focusing on China’s new role in global trade and financial relations, the author argues that this has not radically...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a key technology that is quickly and widely adopted. This article discusses the importance of data and computing power as well as trends in economic concentration, which have structural influence on the...

The article analyses the causes of the current debt crisis of post-colonial states in their geopolitical and geo-economic contexts. It shows that the handling of the first major debt crisis in the Global South in the 1980s set the course for...