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In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
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Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.
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context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
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Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …
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trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
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-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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