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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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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and trust : evidence from cross-country data
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613159
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480767
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The twin track model of employee voice : an Anglo-American perspective on union decline and the rise of alternative forms of voice
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2017
employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow rate, that accounts for this decline. We show how union decline is … costs of employers "making" voice mechanisms. We draw on "spurt" theories of unionisation to help understand factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776030
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The surprising retreat of Union Britain
Pencavel, John H. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany : the deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2018
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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Unionization of retired workers in Europe
Pyka, Vinzenz; Schnabel, Claus - 2023
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429602
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Membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2021
While there is a strong overlap between membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage, the … membership in employers' associations and the coverage by industry-level or firm-level agreements. The analysis particularly … membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage. …
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020
exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers' monopsony power, are …
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