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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; … - In: Employee voice at work, (pp. 23-50). 2019

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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2005

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … gibt, untersuchen wir, ob dies auch in dem unterschiedlichen institutionellen Umfeld in Deutschland der Fall ist, wo statt …

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German works councils old and new: incidence, coverage and determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

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Trade union membership in Eastern and Western Germany: convergence or divergence?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals' probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

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German works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...

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The course of research into the economic consequences of German works councils

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent survey, Frege (2002) concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a `dead end´. The present treatment offers a different conclusion based on a more encompassing review of the evidence. It will identify three distinct phases in the economic analysis of...

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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear 'shadow of death' effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany …

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that …

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