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Unions, collective bargaining and firm performance

Laroche, Patrice - 2020

The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as well as the controversies surrounding the conclusions of … existing empirical research. Although it is difficult to draw firm and general conclusions on the effects of unions on firm …

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Robots, digitalization, and worker voice

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2022

The interplay between labor institutions and the firm-level adoption of new technologies such as robotics and other advanced digital tools remains poorly understood. Using a cross-sectional sample of more than 20000 European establishments, this paper documents a positive association between...

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Organized labour and R&D : evidence from Italy

Cetrulo, Armanda; Cirillo, Valeria; Landini, Fabio - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of firm-level collective bargaining on firms' investment in intangible assets and, specifically R&D. While standard hold-up theories predict a negative effect of organized labour on intangible investments, the inclusion of pay-for-performance schemes in...

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On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labor relations

Cardullo, Gabriele; Conti, Maurizio; Ricci, Andrea; … - 2023

We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes -that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century- and...

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Unions, worker participation and worker well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Heywood, John S. - 2020

This chapter focuses on the lessons learned from four decades of studying the relationship between unions and job …

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Are there gains to joining a union? : evidence from Mexico

Gutierrez Rufrancos, Hector - 2019

sug- gests that although union density may be in decline, unions still have an important role to play in voicing worker …

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Works councils

Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2022

This chapter reviews the economic effects of employee representation with statutory consultation and information rights at the workplace, the works councils. The chapter summarises the international literature which is heavily skewed towards the German case. This review focuses, first, on the...

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Nonunion employee representation : theory and the German experience with mandated works councils

Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2017

Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review...

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Institutions, holdup and automation

Presidente, Giorgio - 2021

What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in a sample of developing and advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial share of cross-country variation in...

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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 overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, this study estimates the determinants of the membership in employers' associations and the coverage...

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