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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and trust : evidence from cross-country data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

and the level at which collective bargaining is conducted. Attention is also paid to the quality of industrial relations …. There is also some indication that collective bargaining at levels higher than the company can exacerbate strike activity … but this effect does not persist, possibly because of decentralization and the development of hybrid bargaining structures …

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Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany : the deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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Collective bargaining and innovation in Germany : cooperative industrial relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2013

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …, collective bargaining at sectoral level might even be pro innovative. …

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Changes in bargaining status and intra-plant wage dispersion in Germany : a case of (almost) plus ça change?

Addison, John T.; Kölling, Arnd; Teixeira, Paulino - 2014

Recent studies have pointed to the association between declining collective bargaining coverage and rising overall wage …

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