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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? : a panel data analysis for 1977 - 2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has …

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The contribution of managers to organizational success : evidence from German soccer

Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

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Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; George, Anitha - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017

From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...

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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018

This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...

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What do workers want? : the shortfall in employee participation at the European workplace

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

circumstances in which management is adjudged uncooperative and untrustworthy. On net, it remains the case that a shortfall in …

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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The determinants of firm performance : unions, works councils, and employee involvement/high performance work practices

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2005

Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links between these two historically separate literatures. The...

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Let's take bargaining models seriously : the decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...

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