In angelsächsischen Ländern stellen Gewerkschaften einen bedeutsamen Indikator für verschiedene Kennzahlen der betrieblichen Leistungserstellung dar. Das gleiche gilt für die deutsche Form der betrieblichen Interessenvertretung - den Betriebsrat. Unter Verwendung des IAB-Betriebspanels...

Unions are an important indicator of various measures of firm performance in Anglo-Saxon countries. The same holds for the German analogue of workplace unionism's the works council. Using the IAB Establishment Panel I examine the impact of works councils and shop-floor participation on further...

This paper introduces a large-scale administrative panel data set on corporate bankruptcy in Germany that allows for an econometric analysis of involuntary exits where previous studies mixed voluntary and involuntary exits. Approximately 83 percent of all bankruptcies occur in plants with no...

We estimate dynamic effects of works councils on labor productivity using newly available information from West German establishment panel data. Conditioning on plant fixed effects and control variables, we find negative productivity effects during the first five years after council...

In this paper, we empirically assess the causal links between trade and individual income risk and study the role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in...

We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...