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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.

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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany : a simple but crucial theoretical extension

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014

A model by Huebler and Jirjahn (2003) suggests that rent-seeking activities of works councils are more limited in establishments covered by collective bargaining. The model predicts that works councils should have a stronger productivity effect and a weaker wage effect in covered than in...

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The dynamic effects of works councils on labor productivity: first evidence from panel data

Müller, Steffen; Stegmaier, Jens - 2015

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...

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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

productivity effect can only be measured in establishments with works councils, i.e. employee induced participation. The estimation …

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The reform of the German works constitution act : a critical assessment

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

Since 1920, the thrust of German law on workplace codetermination has changed on a number of occasions. We describe the … some new results from matched-plant data. If the former evidence points to a codetermination deficit, this shortfall does …Seit 1920 hat sich das Mitbestimmungsrecht in Deutschland mehrfach geändert. Die letzte Änderung brachte eine …

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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...

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