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Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

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Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Due to a last-minute fight among the candidates, Vox, a party at the right end of the Spanish political spectrum, could not run in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a relatively representative electoral constituency, in the general election of July 23, 2023. Since this fight was a power struggle within...

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Pack-Crack-Pack : Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout

Bouton, Laurent; Génicot, Garance; Castanheira, Micael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the manipulation of electoral maps by political parties, known as gerrymandering. At the core of our analysis is the recognition that districts must have the same population size but only voters matter for electoral incentives. Using a novel model of gerrymandering that allows...

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Universalism and Political Representation : Evidence from the Field

Enke, Benjamin; Fisman, Raymond; Freitas, Luis Mota; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper provides field evidence on the link between morals and political behavior. We develop a theory-guided real-stakes measure of each U.S. district's values on the universalism-particularism continuum, which reflects the degree to which charitable giving decreases as a function of social...

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Works councils : consultation, representation, and cooperation in industrial relations

Rogers, Joel (ed.); Streeck, Wolfgang (contributor) - 1995

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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …

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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020

in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine learning method to compute measures of textual similarity …

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Globalization and Its (Dis-)Content : Trade Shocks and Voting Behavior

Dippel, Christian - 2015

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009 …

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Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies

Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent; Schäfer, Jérôme - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most debated rules. We begin by...

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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...

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