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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 … countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Grund, Christian - 2019
Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...
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Corporate Hierarchies Under Employee Representation
Belloc, Filippo - 2020
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace
Addison, John T. - 2018
circumstances in which management is adjudged uncooperative and untrustworthy. On net, it remains the case that a shortfall in …
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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is...
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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
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Employee Representation and Flexible Working Time
Burdín, Gabriel - 2016
This paper provides evidence on the effect of employee representation on working time flexibility in private-sector European establishments. A 2002 European Union directive granted information, consultation and representation rights to employees on a range of key business, employment and work...
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust : Evidence from Cross-Country Data
Addison, John T. - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
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Workplace Democracy and Job Flows
Alves, Guillermo - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between workplace democracy and job flows (net job creations, gross job creations and destructions) by comparing the behavior of worker-managed firms (WMFs) and conventional firms. The empirical analysis relies on high frequency administrative firm-level...
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