This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...

Die 70er Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts brachten neben neuen gesetzlichen Regelungen zur Mitbestimmung auch darüber hinausgehende Experimente der Beteiligung von Beschäftigten hervor. Eines der seinerzeit viel diskutierten Modelle war das der Firma Hoppmann, einem Kfz-Handelsbetrieb in Siegen....

This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....

"We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and...