Die Ergebnisse über die wir im Folgenden berichten, wurden im Rahmen einer Studie über die Wettbewerbssituation der Arbeitnehmer ermittelt, die im April 2009 durchgeführt wurde. In dem hier vorliegenden Kurzbericht befassen wir uns mit der etwas spezielleren Frage, wie die Arbeitnehmer die...

A growing number of econometric examinations show that works councils substantially shape the personnel policy of firms in Germany. Firms with works councils make greater use of various HRM practices. This gives rise to the question of whether employers view the shaping of personnel policy...

We analyse how countries' innovation outcomes are affected by national legislations of worker participation to corporate governance. We develop a model of employee representation laws (ERL) and innovation in the presence of incomplete labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across...

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...