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. …

This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective … bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective …

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the … leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are …

The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union density among … councillors and the fall in union density in West Germany are closely linked. …

’s decision making has the potential to foster workers’ political participation in civic society. Our study for Germany indeed … examining their influence on workers’ political behavior. Political spillover theory suggests that participation in the firm … finds a positive association between the presence of a works council and workers’ interest in politics. This holds in panel …