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Works Councils - Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703801
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Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company … level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822465
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Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany: A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?
Addison, John T.; Kölling, Arnd; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812516
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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734418
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The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578120
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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103271
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Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Kölling, Arnd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective … encourage a sanguine view of recent legislation in Germany that facilitates the formation of works councils and strengthens … their codetermination powers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822621
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The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences of Works Council Relations
Pfeifer, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
I use a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and profits. The results indicate that the effects differ significantly between works council relationship types in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003941
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The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
German law guaranteeing works councils is not a datum. The thrust of legislation has changed significantly on a number of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a controversial swing in favor of works council formation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761746
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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
codetermination at the workplace. This framework is key to understanding the progress that has been made in analysing the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762185