This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings. The wage premium is around 11 percent (and is higher under...

Der Beitrag widmet sich den Vertretungsinstitutionen jenseits des Betriebsverfassungsgesetzes. Auf Grundlage des IAB-Betriebspanels wird zunaechst die Verbreitung und Entwicklung solcher alternativer Vertretungsorgane beschrieben, bevor deren Schicksal auf einzelbetrieblicher Ebene nachgegangen...

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....