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Complementarity in employee participation systems: international evidence
Burdín, Gabriel; Kato, Takao - 2021
We describe the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and Europe through the lens of complementarity in organizations. Specifically, rather than treating each work practice in isolation, we consider it an element of HIWS (High...
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Performance pay and earnings : evidence from personnel records
Pekkarinen, Tuomas (contributor); Riddell, Chris (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained and hours worked on a performance pay contract. Using these data, we estimate the effects of...
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Complex production processes and wage inequality
Pekkarinen, Tuomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Labour productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK engineering and metal manufacture
Hart, Robert A. - 2020
This paper compares labour productivity during the Great Depression (GD) and the Great Recession (GR) in engineering, metal working and allied industries. Throughout, it distinguishes between output per worker and output per hour. From the peak-to-trough of the GD cycle, hourly labour...
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Women workers in essential British metal and chemical industries during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, Elizabeth J. - 2023
Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...
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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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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.
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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 German model of industrial relations : balancing flexibility and collective action
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2022
pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …
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Works councils as gatekeepers : codetermination, monitoring practices, and job satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2023
This paper analyzes the role of works councils as gatekeepers safeguarding employee's interests in the adoption of monitoring practices. We first introduce a formal model predicting that (i) the introduction of monitoring practices leads to a stronger increase (or weaker decrease) in job...
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