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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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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 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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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

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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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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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 long-run effects of teacher collective bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - 2016

This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes. Our analysis exploits the different timing across states in the passage of duty-to-bargain laws in a difference-in-difference framework to identify...

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The political economy of collective bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2002

We construct a political equilibrium in which employers and labour unions bargain over labour contracts, wage-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be accepted by the majority of voters. We show that the...

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Does labor protection increase support for immigration? : evidence from Switzerland

Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration policies. We look at Swiss national votes which took...

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Minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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Trade exposure and the decline in collective bargaining : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019

We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996–2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other...

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