Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable … Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works … consequences of our findings for economic analysis of the institution and for public policy. …

Since 1920, the thrust of German law on workplace codetermination has changed on a number of occasions. We describe the …

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasiparity codetermination at company … parity. And although the German system may be better than its reputation among foreigners, it might have to adapt to … globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. …

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company … parity. And although the German system may be better than its reputation among foreigners, it might have to adapt to … globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. …

) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), cross-sectional wage regression results from 1997 …

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several … recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on … for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the …

It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several "problem groups" of German workers suffer … individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …