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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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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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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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Did France Cause the Great Depression?
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2010
initiated the downturn, France increased its share of world gold reserves from 7 percent to 27 percent between 1927 and 1932 and … and world prices had continued. The results indicate that France was somewhat more to blame than the United States for the …
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Disability and Social Security Reforms : The French Case
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at "normal" retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French workers...
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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle
Kydland, Finn - 2012
Over the U.S. business cycle, fluctuations in residential investment are well known to systematically lead GDP. These dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is broadly coincident with GDP. Nonresidential investment...
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