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No extension without representation? : evidence from a natural experiment in collective bargaining

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

In many countries, notably across Europe, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to all firms and workers in the same sector. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions...

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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Workplace unionism, collective bargaining and skill formation : new results from mixed methods

Bertoni, Fabio; Carreri, Anna; Devicienti, Francesco; … - 2019

Among the steps to improve a country's competitiveness, several commentators and international institutions include a general emphasis on deregulation and decentralization of industrial relations. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by studying whether and how firm-level unionism and...

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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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Designing good labour market institutions : how to reconcile flexibility, productivity and security?

Eichhorst, Werner; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Souza, André Portela - 2019

division of labour that are facilitated by global economic integration. This paper is based on the joint work within the … collective bargaining, and e) social protection and labour market policies. Based on an assessment of the existing evidence, the … tensions that might exist between flexibility and security in the different labour markets. The ultimate direction of reforms …

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Do German works councils counter or foster the implementation of digital technologies?

Genz, Sabrina; Bellmann, Lutz; Matthes, Britta - 2018

As works councils' information, consultation and co-determination rights affect the decision process of the management, works councils play a key role in the implementation of digital technologies in establishments. However, previous research focuses on the potential of digital technologies to...

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Owners, external managers, and industrial relations in German establishments

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus - 2019

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

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The German model of industrial relations : (where) does it still exist?

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2017

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel, this paper charts changes in the two main pillars of the German IR model over the last 20 years. It shows that collective bargaining coverage and worker representation via works councils have substantially fallen outside the public...

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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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The relationship between union membership and net fiscal impact

Sojourner, Aaron; Pacas, José - 2018

This paper develops the first evidence on how individuals' union membership status affects their net fiscal impact, the difference between taxes they pay and cost of public benefits they receive, enriching our understanding of how labor relations interacts with public economics. Current...

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