Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Joachim Wagner ...

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically significant effect of works council presence estimated by ordinary least squares now vanishes for large parts of this distribution...

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Wagner, Joachim ; Addison, John T. ; Schnabel, Claus ; Schank, Thorsten
Publisher:	Lüneburg : Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Sozialwiss.
Subject:	Betriebsrat \| Works council \| Arbeitsproduktivität \| Labour productivity \| Industrie \| Manufacturing industries \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Deutschland \| Germany
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Extent:	17, VI S graph. Darst.
Series:	Arbeitsbericht / Universität Lüneburg, Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. - Lüneburg, ISSN 0176-7275, ZDB-ID 1020211-0. - Vol. A328
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Literaturverz. S. 11 - 12
Classification:	Arbeitsbeziehungen
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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