The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that … management. Greater automation in establishments with ER does not seem to result from more adversarial employment relationships …

consequences of automation. Combining German individual-level administrative records with information on plant-level robot adoption … works councils on retention for incumbent workers during automation events. Separations for workers with replaceable task … become more valuable and the effects of works councils during automation events start to disappear. Older workers, who find …