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Mandatory Works Councils in Germany: Their Effects on Productivity and Profits

Müller, Steffen - 2009

Arbeitnehmer haben in Deutschland das Recht zur Wahl von Betriebsräten. Betriebsräte haben gesetzliche Informations-, Konsultations- und Mitbestimmungsrechte. Die Effekte von Betriebsräten auf Produktivität und Gewinne von mittelgroßen Betrieben des verarbeitenden Gewerbes werden mit Daten...

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Worker participation in decision-making, worker sorting, and firm performance

Müller, Steffen; Neuschäffer, Georg - 2020

Worker participation in decision-making is often associated with high-wage and high-productivity firm strategies. Using linked-employer-employee data for Germany and worker fixed effects from a two-way fixed effects model of wages capturing observed and unobserved worker quality, we find that...

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Why is there resistance to works councils in Germany? : an economic perspective

Müller, Steffen; Stegmaier, Jens - 2017

Recent empirical research generally finds evidence of positive economic effects of works councils, for example with regard to productivity and - with some limitations - to profits. This makes it necessary to explain why employers’ associations have reservations against works councils. On the...

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Works councils and labour productivity looking beyond the mean

Müller, Steffen - In: BJIR : an international journal of employment relations 53 (2015) 2, pp. 308-325

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Mandatory works councils in germany : their effects on productivity and profits

Müller, Steffen - 2009

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Nonunion worker representation, foreign owners and the performance of establishments

Jirjahn, Uwe; Müller, Steffen - 2011

Using German establishment data, this study provides the first econometric analysis on the interaction of establishment-level codetermination and foreign owners. Works councils are associated with higher productivity in domestic-owned establishments while they are associated with lower...

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Are the firm owners really worse off with a works council?

Müller, Steffen - 2009

As they are employee associations, it is typically presumed that works councils redistribute economic rents from firm owners to workers. And indeed, empirical literature suggests that works councils reduce profits although, at the same time, they increase productivity. Studies on the...

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Why is there resistance to works councils in Germany? : an economic perspective

Müller, Steffen; Stegmaier, Jens - In: Economic and industrial democracy 41 (2020) 3, pp. 540-561

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The dynamic effects of works councils on labor productivity: first evidence from panel data

Müller, Steffen; Stegmaier, Jens - 2015

We estimate dynamic effects of works councils on labor productivity using newly available information from West German establishment panel data. Conditioning on plant fixed effects and control variables, we find negative productivity effects during the first five years after council...

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Warum gibt es Widerstand gegen Betriebsräte?

Müller, Steffen - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 24 (2018) 2, pp. 23-25

Die jüngere ökonomische Forschung stellt der betrieblichen Mitbestimmung z. B. im Hinblick auf ihre Effekte auf … erklärungsbedürftig. Da Mitbestimmung die unternehmerische Freiheit einschränkt, wird vielfach vermutet, dass Arbeitgeber bereit sein … könnten, positive Effekte der Mitbestimmung im Gegenzug für größere Handlungsspielräume zu opfern. Unser Beitrag zeigt auf …

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