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