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Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations
Appelbaum, Eileen; Hunter, Larry W. - 2021
This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic...
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Credit within the Firm
Pistaferri, Luigi - 2010
We exploit time variation in the degree of development of local credit markets and matched employer-employee data to assess the role of the firm as an internal credit market. In less developed local credit markets firms can offer a flatter wage-tenure profile than firms in more developed credit...
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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
Chi, Wei - 2010
This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...
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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
German system of codetermination,' a governance system under which employees are allocated some control rights over corporate … assets by law. Codetermination laws require that employees be represented on the (supervisory) board of directors. If … codetermination sufficiently empowers employees, and if stockholders' rights cannot be contractually protected, then employees may …
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
We estimate the wage effects of shared governance, or codetermination, in the form of a mandate of one third of … analogous difference in unaffected firm types (LLCs). We find no effects of board-level codetermination on wages and the wage …
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The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and its Effects on Firms and Workers
Freeman, Richard B.; Kleiner, Morris M.; Ostroff, Cheri - 2021
A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...
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How to Compete : The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity
Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2021
Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information technology...
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The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan
Kato, Takao - 2022
Using both quantitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from our own field research, this paper provides evidence on changes in participatory employment practices in Japan during the economic slowdown in the 1990s. Overall, consistent with the complementarity of such practices...
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
Coviello, Decio - 2011
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...
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Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2010
Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on evidence that absences of young female Italian bank employees follow a 28-day cycle. We analyze absenteeism of teachers and find no evidence of increased female absenteeism on a...
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