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context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
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Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …
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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 empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …
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secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …
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In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...
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Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …
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collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …
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representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the …
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