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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.

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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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Reciprocity and workers' tastes for representation

Jirjahn, Uwe; Lange, Vanessa - 2011

Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the influence of reciprocal inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to work in firms with a works council while employees...

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Nonunion worker representation, foreign owners and the performance of establishments

Jirjahn, Uwe; Müller, Steffen - 2011

-level codetermination and foreign owners. Works councils are associated with higher productivity in domestic-owned establishments while they …

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Foreign owners and the quality of industrial relations in Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2013

German works councils provide a highly developed mechanism for codetermination designed to increase trust and …. Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, we find that works councils and managers in foreign-owned firms are less …

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Wage effects of works councils and opening clauses : the German case

Ellguth, Peter; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Stegmaier, Jens - In: Economic and industrial democracy : EID ; an … 35 (2014) 1, pp. 95-113

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The economic effects of works councils : channels and conditions : using secondary data to test a new theoretical model

Wigboldus, Jan Ekke; Grift, Yolanda K.; Berg, Annette … - In: Economic and industrial democracy : EID ; an … 37 (2016) 3, pp. 535-565

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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...

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Owners, external managers and industrial relations in German establishments

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus - In: British journal of industrial relations : BJIR ; an … 60 (2022) 2, pp. 424-443

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Industrial democracy : historical development and current challenges

Müller-Jentsch, Walther - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 19 (2008) 4, pp. 260-273

Germany. The final discussion focuses on the ideological permutation of co-determination changing its socialist embeddedness …-Saxon terminology, going back to S. and B. Webb will be compared with the German vocabulary of Wirtschaftsdemokratie and co-determination …. The following sections deal with the peculiarities of German co-determination. First the emergence of co-determination is …

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