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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasiexperimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480463
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Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?
Blandhol, Christine - 2020
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question - especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482488
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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
Chi, Wei - 2007
This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465778
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Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations
Appelbaum, Eileen - 2003
This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469109
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The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and Its Effects on Firms and Workers
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470682
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The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan
Kato, Takao - 2000
Using both quantitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from our own field research, this paper provides evidence on changes in participatory employment practices in Japan during the economic slowdown in the 1990s. Overall, consistent with the complementarity of such practices...
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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination
Gorton, Gary - 2000
German system of codetermination,' a governance system under which employees are allocated some control rights over corporate … assets by law. Codetermination laws require that employees be represented on the (supervisory) board of directors. If … codetermination sufficiently empowers employees, and if stockholders' rights cannot be contractually protected, then employees may …
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Voice at Work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496075
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How to Compete : The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity
Black, Sandra E. - 1997
Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information technology...
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