Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper demonstrates that the impact of works council presence on labor productivity varies between manufacturing and services, between plants that are or are not covered by collective...

Using a newly collected dataset at the plant level from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first microscopic portrait of robotization in Germany and study the correlates of robot adoption. Our descriptive analysis uncovers five stylized facts: (1) Robot use is relatively rare. (2) The distribution of...

This paper provides a theoretical framework and some empirical information on the shift from industrialization to de-industrialization which typically occurs in the course of economic growth. It is suggested that such a non-monotonic structural change is caused by a diminishing productivity bias...