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Works councils : consultation, representation, and cooperation in industrial relations
Rogers, Joel (ed.); Streeck, Wolfgang (contributor) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480960
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Americans Do I.T. Better : US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nicholas - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465569
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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment
Desai, Mihir A. - 2002
This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469485
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Global Production with Export Platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - 2016
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456439
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An Economic Analysis of Works Councils
Freeman, Richard B. - 1994
, consultation, and in some cases co-determination of employment conditions at local workplaces, mandated by law. Many European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473986
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470771
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470791
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472690
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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...
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