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We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the … leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …
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We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the … leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …
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We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the … leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …
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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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We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the … leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …
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We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the … leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively …, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers …
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present. The finding raises the question of whether establishment-level codetermination reduces gender wage discrimination or … the hypothesis that establishment-level codetermination reduces gender-specific wage discrimination. …
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Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...
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Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...
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plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …
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