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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2005
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … (favorable) impact on investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262197
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Trends in economic research: an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … research, the US maintains a dominant position. The main continental European countries, Germany, France, Italy and Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269503
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … (favorable) impact on investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822189
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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003
In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ?dead end?. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261591
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German Works Councils in the Production Process
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261548
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German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002
Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262744
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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269284
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Cultural integration in Germany
Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271257
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Another economic miracle? The German labor market and the great recession
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282628
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10 years after: EU enlargement, closed borders, and migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291411