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Works councils and workplace health promotion in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Smith, Stephen C. - 2019

From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is...

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Works councils and workplace health promotion in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Smith, Stephen C. - 2019

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Works councils and workplace health promotion in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Smith, Stephen C. - 2019

This study explores the impact an exogenous improvement in childhood health has on later-life outcomes. Using extensive and detailed register data from the Swedish Interdisciplinary Panel, we follow individuals exposed to the introduction of the first vaccine against polio in Sweden (birth...

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …

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Voluntary quits: do works councils matter? : an analysis of the reform of the German Works Constitution Act 2001

Adam, Julian B. - 2018

Most of the literature on the effects of German works councils does not deal with the issue of potential endogeneity of works council existence. Exploiting exogenous variation in works council authority stemming from a 2001 reform of the German Works Constitution Act, I apply a regression...

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The German model of industrial relations : balancing flexibility and collective action

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2022

pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …

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