Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company … level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the …

codetermination at the workplace. This framework is key to understanding the progress that has been made in analysing the effect of …

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 …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …

This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective … encourage a sanguine view of recent legislation in Germany that facilitates the formation of works councils and strengthens … their codetermination powers. …

-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour hoarding costs of co-determination are … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …