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 …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training in Germany. The German law … attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights to training-related issues. Thus, works councils …

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 …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

and focus on the early careers of skilled workers in Germany. We adopt a simple human capital theory approach. Advantages …

net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable …

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 …