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Gender, Worker Representation and the Profitability of Firms in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2011
establishments, the empirical analysis suggests that there is a positive association between the share of women and profitability in … present. The finding raises the question of whether establishment-level codetermination reduces gender wage discrimination or … whether it reduces a wage differential that reflects productivity differences between men and women. This study addresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327755
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Gender, worker representation and the profitability of firms in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2011
establishments, the empirical analysis suggests that there is a positive association between the share of women and profitability in … present. The finding raises the question of whether establishment-level codetermination reduces gender wage discrimination or … whether it reduces a wage differential that reflects productivity differences between men and women. This study addresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356074
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Gender, Worker Representation and the Profitability of Firms in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2011
establishments, the empirical analysis suggests that there is a positive association between the share of women and profitability in … present. The finding raises the question of whether establishment-level codetermination reduces gender wage discrimination or … whether it reduces a wage differential that reflects productivity differences between men and women. This study addresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720395
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Union Coverage, Membership and Performance-Related Pay: Are Piece Rates Different?
O'Halloran, Patrick - In: National Institute Economic Review 226 (2013) 1, pp. 30-30
This paper revisits a literature on the links between unionisation and performance-related pay (PRP), which offers a disparate set of results. Part of the reason for this is the usual inability to distinguish between different types of PRP and the lack of rich panel data containing such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785964
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Increasing Employment for Older Workers with Effective Protections Against Employment Discrimination
Harris, Seth D. - 2021
Employment discrimination contributes significantly to depressing labor force participation and employment rates of … older workers. Actual discrimination reduces employers’ demand for older workers’ labor, while older workers’ perception of … workplace and labor market discrimination reduces their willingness to supply their labor, especially given the availability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220748
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Trade unions in Poland: Between stagnation and innovation
Krzywdzinski, Martin - In: Management Revue 23 (2012) 1, pp. 66-82
Since the beginning of the transformation in Poland, trade unions have experienced nearly two decades of declining membership numbers and influence. This article shows that not only the restructuring of the economy but also the trade union policies and organizational forms themselves contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332816
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653303
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012042383
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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019
Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052828
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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019
Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059168