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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation

Forth, John - 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 for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain : Evidence from the Metalworking Industry

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2020

In several OECD countries employer federations and unions fix skill-specific wage floors for all workers in an industry. One view of those "explicit" contracts argues that the prevailing wage structure reflects the labor market conditions back at the time when those contracts were bargained,...

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Spillover Effects of Energy Transition Metals in Chile

Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023

This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...

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Workplace Democracy in the Lab

Mellizo, Philip - 2011

While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...

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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...

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Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects : The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Gralla, Rafael - 2012

This study examines differences in employment growth between firms with and without works councils by separating introduction effects from potential selectivity effects. Using a difference in differences framework, we show that firms with works councils have higher employment growth before...

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Higher Wages, Overstaffing or Both? The Employer's Assessment of Problems Regarding Wage Costs and Staff Level in Co-Determined Establishments

Gralla, Rafael - 2012

This study examines the differences in the likelihood of overpayment and overemployment in establishments with and without works councils. In contrast to other studies, we use assessments by the management concerning the existence of such problems. Furthermore, we also analyze how different...

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Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany

Grund, Christian - 2013

We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find a negative relationship between works councils and both kinds...

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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T. - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...

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Co-Determination and Innovation

Kraft, Kornelius - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of … German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms …, we compare the co-determined firms with others before and after 1976. The results do not support the view that co-determination …

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