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propose redistributive tax and welfare reform, extended codetermination, subsidised profit sharing and employee buyouts. …
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This study examines the differences in the likelihood of overpayment and overemployment in establishments with and without works councils. In contrast to other studies, we use assessments by the management concerning the existence of such problems. Furthermore, we also analyze how different...
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This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
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While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and inequitable due to mis-aligned incentives - employers, as residual claimants, have an incentive to elicit greater than socially optimal effort from workers, thus generating conflict...
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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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study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
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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 …
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linked-employer-employee panel data from Germany. We indeed find that the adoption of formal performance appraisals and …
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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 …
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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 …
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