study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

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 …

pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …

data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on …

. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that allowed workers to hold small secondary jobs tax-free, decreasing the …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …