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Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction : The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia

Bahar, Dany - 2019

During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...

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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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One-Third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries : First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type … of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and … the first time a direct comparison of enterprises from the same size class with and without codetermination at the …

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Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

Addison, John T. - 2020

Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...

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