Arbeitspapier
The Productivity Effect of Non-Union Representation
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: BGPE Discussion Paper ; No. 74
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
- Subject
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worker participation
works council
productivity
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Mueller, Steffen
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)
- (where)
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Nürnberg
- (when)
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2009
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mueller, Steffen
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)
Time of origin
- 2009
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