Year: 2009
Type: preprint
Abstract: Declining union density in many industrialized countries directs attention to alter-native ways of labor relations and worker representation as, e.g., works councils. German works councils belong to the most powerful worker representations in de-veloped countries but little is known of their causal effect on productivity. A large linked employer-employee panel is used to examine this issue. Comparing firms with and without a works council I find that firms with a works council are on average 6.5 percent more productive. I present evidence that this estimate is the lower bound to the causal productivity effect of works councils.
Author: Steffen Mueller
Language: English
Topic: Labor Movements and Unions
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1560094186