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The Shortfall in Formal Employee Participation at the European Workplace

Addison, John T. - 2019

Cross-country data are used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in EU establishments with formal workplace employee representation. The desire for greater involvement is smaller where workplace representation is via works...

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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments

Addison, John T. - 2019

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...

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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

Addison, John T. - 2019

Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...

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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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What Does Codetermination Do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management … that existing quasi-experimental 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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Voice at Work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 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...

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Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

Addison, John T. - 2020

Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...

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Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?

Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, Peter; … - 2021

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...

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Punishment : and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering...

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Labor in the Boardroom

Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 2019

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