de- veloped countries but little is known of their causal effect on productivity. A large linked employer-employee panel … productivity effect of works councils. …

The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive … structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational … had an impact on productivity and profitability. We find that the UK plant's productivity and worker satisfaction was well …

The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …

Technologies (ICTs) in productivity growth, but this research has focused primarily on North America. In the fourth article … ICT capital is a primary driver of labour productivity growth in all UK sectors except mining and quarrying. He concludes … that the weaker productivity performance of the United Kingdom relative to the United States can be attributed mainly to …

-seeking. Regarding rent-generation, we find an amplifying effect: works council existence is associated with higher productivity in …

establishments covered by collective bargaining. The model predicts that works councils should have a stronger productivity effect … evidence for the predicted productivity effects, the results on the wage effects of works councils in covered and uncovered …

that explains this development. As exit-voice theory predicts, voice is associated with lower voluntary turnover …, especially in the case of union voice. Union voice is also associated with greater workplace conflict and poorer productivity …

This analysis characterizes empirically how good labour relations can alleviate the negative impact on productivity of … on total factor productivity (TFP). Regulatory constraints would become really binding when workers or unions use them as …