Works Councils and Employment Growth: A Rejoinder to Uwe Jirjahn’s Critique

Abstract: "In a characteristically combative treatment, Jirjahn (2008a) argues that Addison and Teixeira’s (2006) finding of a negative relationship between works council presence and employment growth is a chimera produced by the way in which establishment size is measured. We reject his assertion of misspecification for two reasons; the second of which undoubtedly contributed to leading Jirjahn astray. And while Jirjahn’s treatment is of interest in its own right, he does a poor job of portraying our overall analysis. Thus, he neglects our treatment of survival bias while ignoring our presentation of a dynamic labor demand model. Elsewhere he seems to grudgingly support the former (Jirjahn 2008b), and implicitly to accept our findings pertaining to employment adjustment (where we report that works councils do not slow the tortuous pace of employment adjustment in Germany). At root, the thrust of his treatment is adversarial and his position on the economic effects of works councils over-op

Alternative title
Betriebsräte und Beschäftigungswachstum: Eine Antwort auf Uwe Jirjahns Kritik
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
In: Industrielle Beziehungen : Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management ; 15 (2008) 4 ; 427-435

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2008
Creator
Addison, John T.
Teixeira, Paulino

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-359392
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Addison, John T.
  • Teixeira, Paulino

Time of origin

  • 2008

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