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

Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review of research on the German experience with mandated works councils finds generally positive effects, though these effects depend on a series of moderating factors and some impacts remain ambiguous. Finally, key questions for empirical research on nonunion employee representation, which have previously been little analyzed in the literature, are reviewed.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 132

Classification
Wirtschaft
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General
Personnel Economics: General
Subject
Nonunion representation
works councils
organizational failures
market failures
society

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jirjahn, Uwe
Smith, Stephen C.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(where)
Maastricht
(when)
2017

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Jirjahn, Uwe
  • Smith, Stephen C.
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Time of origin

  • 2017

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