Verbreitung und ökonomische Effekte von Betriebsräten und alternativen Mitbestimmungsformen in der Industrie und deren Verbundbranchen

Stettes, Oliver

doi:10.3790/sfo.59.8.199

“…Also, their empirical specification is different: they do not control for capital stock, while labour productivity as well as plant size do not enter in a logarithmic form (although stated in the header of their Table ). In contrast to my results, Stettes () finds strong negative productivity effects at high quantiles of the conditional distribution of sales per worker, reaching up to minus 76 per cent at the ninth decile. This difference to my conditional quantile regression results might be explained by the different dataset.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although there are no other studies attempting to estimate works council effects at productivity quantiles with unconditional quantile regression, Wagner et al . () and Stettes () utilize conditional quantile regression. My conditional quantile regression results somewhat contradict with the study of Wagner et al .…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This difference to my conditional quantile regression results might be explained by the different dataset. Stettes () works with one cross section of the IW‐Zukunftspanel, which covers only manufacturing and affiliated industries, samples companies instead of plants, and lacks important information, for example on intermediate and capital input. Also, the insignificant but substantial negative works council coefficient in Stettes' OLS regression stands in sharp contrast to the positive and highly significant OLS coefficients repeatedly found in the frequently used IAB data.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean

Mueller

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2013

Brit J Industrial Rel

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After more than 25 years of empirical investigation, the analysis of works council effects on establishment productivity is still an active field of economic research. I present first evidence for works council regression coefficients along the unconditional log labour productivity distribution in Germany. The highest (lowest) coefficients were found at the bottom (top) of the distribution, which suggests that works councils have the most beneficial effects at low levels of productivity. Importantly, coefficients are positive at each productivity level. The results shed light on a classical theoretical argument concerning moderating factors for the productivity effect of employee participation.Steffen Mueller is at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

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“…Empirical research confirms that works councils are more likely to be introduced by the workforce if the employer has a strong incentive to behave opportunistically (Jirjahn 2009, Kraft and Lang 2008, Mohrenweiser et al 2011. There is also evidence that works councils play a specific role in sustaining cooperation and performance in such a situation (Jirjahn 2011, Stettes 2010 Findings by Jirjahn and Smith (2006) suggest that those establishments are more likely to use forms of direct worker participation in order to build cooperative industrial relations.…”

Section: Work Councilsmentioning

confidence: 52%

Reciprocity and Workers’ Tastes for Representation

Jirjahn

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,

Lange

²

2015

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“…Not only the adoption of works councils, but also their effects appear to depend on the economic situation of the establishments. Positive effects on performance are stronger in establishments that face adverse economic conditions (Jirjahn , Mueller , Stettes ). This conforms to the hypothesis that a works council is specifically important for ensuring trustful industrial relations when the economic situation of the establishment involves a stronger incentive for the employer to behave opportunistically.…”

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Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience With Mandated Works Councils

Jirjahn

¹

,

Smith

²

2018

Ann Public Coop Econ

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Verbreitung und ökonomische Effekte von Betriebsräten und alternativen Mitbestimmungsformen in der Industrie und deren Verbundbranchen

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Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean

Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean

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Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience With Mandated Works Councils

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