study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

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 …

linked-employer-employee panel data from Germany. We indeed find that the adoption of formal performance appraisals and …

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company … level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the … globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. -- Codetermination ; board-level employee …

performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One-third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination firm performance nexus by using a new type … of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and …

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

This paper investigates trends in collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany from 2000 to 2008. It … western Germany. Arguably, the path of erosion will continue until rough and ready convergence is reached with eastern Germany … appears to be so. -- Erosion of the dual system ; collective bargaining/works council coverage ; eastern and western Germany …