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Organized labor versus robots? : evidence from micro data
Findeisen, Sebastian; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024
consequences of automation. Combining German individual-level administrative records with information on plant-level robot adoption … works councils on retention for incumbent workers during automation events. Separations for workers with replaceable task … become more valuable and the effects of works councils during automation events start to disappear. Older workers, who find …
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Organized labor versus robots? Evidence from micro data
Findeisen, Sebastian; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024
consequences of automation. Combining German individual-level administrative records with information on plant-level robot adoption … works councils on retention for incumbent workers during automation events. Separations for workers with replaceable task … become more valuable and the effects of works councils during automation events start to disappear. Older workers, who find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577278
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Robots and worker voice: an empirical exploration
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that … ER is positively associated with robot usage. The presence of ER also correlates with the utilization of software …
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Robots, digitalization, and worker voice
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2022
The interplay between labor institutions and the firm-level adoption of new technologies such as robotics and other advanced digital tools remains poorly understood. Using a cross-sectional sample of more than 20000 European establishments, this paper documents a positive association between...
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Unionizing Subcontracted Labor
Shamir, Hila - 2018
Subcontracting — the practice of using intermediaries to contract workers, whether through temp agencies, manpower agencies, franchise, or other multilayered contracting — is an increasingly popular pattern of employment worldwide. Whether justified from a business perspective or not,...
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Organized labor versus robots? Evidence from microdata
Findeisen, Sebastian; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schlenker, Oliver - 2025
institutions - specifically shop-floor worker representation - mediate the impact of automation. Combining German individual …-level administrative records with plant-level data on industrial robot adoption, we find that works councils reduce the separation risk for … incumbent workers during automation events. When labor markets are tight and replacement costs are high, incumbent workers …
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Trade unions in Poland : between stagnation and innovation
Krzywdzinski, Martin - In: Management revue : MRev 23 (2012) 1, pp. 66-82
Since the beginning of the transformation in Poland, trade unions have experienced nearly two decades of declining membership numbers and influence. This article shows that not only the restructuring of the economy but also the trade union policies and organizational forms themselves contributed...
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Automation, trade unions and atypical employment
Lewandowski, Piotr; Szymczak, Wojciech - 2024
We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies - industrial robots, and software and databases - on the …-2 percentage points of atypical employment shares to rising robot exposure. …
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Corporate globalization and worker representation
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2024
This chapter reviews research on the linkages between corporate globalization and worker representation. Studies have identified various transmission channels through which the activities of foreign multinational companies (MNCs) affect host-country institutions of union and non-union...
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Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Thi Xuan Thu Le - 2022
While works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace democracy, research on their consequences has been dominated by economic aspects. This study brings a new perspective to the understanding of works councils by examining their influence on workers' political behavior....
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