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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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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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Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting on Compensation Plans : The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation

Cremers, Martijn - 2010

This paper examines the impact on shareholder voting of the mutual fund voting disclosure regulation adopted by the SEC in 2003, using a paired sample of management proposals on executive equity incentive compensation plans submitted before and after the rule change. While voting support for...

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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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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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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination

Gorton, Gary - 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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Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems : Evidence from the American Labor Market

Dube, Arindrajit - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between shared capitalist modes of pay and shared modes of decision-making via employee involvement and related committees and between them and measures of productivity and worker well-being in two data sets: the employee based Worker Participation and...

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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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Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?

Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2022

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

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Real Exchange Rates and Productivity Growth in the United States and Japan

Marston, Richard C. - 2004

Real exchange rates between the yen and dollar based on general price indexes overestimate the competitiveness of the United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a continuous fall in the prices of traded goods relative to...

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