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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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Labor in the boardroom

Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 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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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan (contributor); … - 2008

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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022

Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....

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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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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?

Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 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...

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Worker commitment and establishment performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment performance. An index of worker commitment is...

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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 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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Management practices and establishment performance under non-union workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bellmann, Lutz - 2020

This paper brings together two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance: advanced management practices and works councils. The country sample comprises nations where workplace representation is via a works council. The Management Questionnaire of the 2013 European Company Survey...

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Trust and workplace performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially measured using the individual survey respondent's...

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