context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable … Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works … consequences of our findings for economic analysis of the institution and for public policy. …

Since 1920, the thrust of German law on workplace codetermination has changed on a number of occasions. We describe the …

representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier … own right given the sharply opposing findings of past empirical research and the partisan positions these have helped …