This research study will examine how labor manages productivity advances and crisis response in both the United States … and Germany's automobile manufacturing sector, particularly in the context of technological application, workplace … workforce and lower wages while in Germany, labor has remained resilient even during the global economic crisis of 2008. This …

-level codetermination and foreign owners. Works councils are associated with higher productivity in domestic-owned establishments while they … are associated with lower productivity in foreign-owned establishments. Moreover, the estimates show that the interaction … incidence and collective bargaining coverage have a positive interaction effect on productivity in domestic-owned establishments …

We analyse the interaction between different labour market institutions in Germany, a country with a long tradition of …-seeking. Regarding rent-generation, we find an amplifying effect: works council existence is associated with higher productivity in …

firms productivity levels within the industry. Less pronounced differences in productivity levels make it easier to design … collective wage contracts that are accepted by a wider range of firms within an industry. Higher dispersion in productivity … likely to decrease. We measure correlations between productivity variation and collective bargaining coverage in various …