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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?
Fox, Jeremy T. - 2011
Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one explanation: the quality of inputs differs across firms. We add labor market history variables such as experience and firm and industry tenure, as well as general human capital...
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
Morefield, Brant - 2011
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...
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Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy at the Household Level
Gustman, Alan L. - 2010
This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to explore the mechanism that underlies the robust relation found in the literature between cognitive ability, and in particular numeracy, and wealth, income constant. We have a number of findings. First, the more valuable the pension,...
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