This chapter reviews the economic effects of employee representation with statutory
consultation and information rights at the workplace, the works councils. The chapter …

Abstract Bloom and Van Reenen (2007) have suggested an index of best management
practices capturing three broad areas: monitoring, targets and incentives. However, it is an …

The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified the economic and social problems that societies
face today. At the same time, the public response to the crisis points to a constructive way …

Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects
market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized …

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel, this paper charts changes in
the two main pillars of the German IR model over the last 20 years. It shows that collective …

Zusammenfassung Die Mitbestimmung der Arbeitnehmer ist ein Eckpfeiler der betrieblichen
Arbeitsbeziehungen in Deutschland. Claus Schnabel verdeutlicht, dass Betriebsräte und …

We estimate dynamic effects of works councils on labour productivity using newly available
information from West German establishment panel data. Conditioning on plant fixed effects …

Although works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace
democracy, research on their consequences has been dominated by economic aspects …

From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures and organizational failures
resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help …

Recent empirical research generally finds evidence of positive economic effects for works
councils, for example with regard to productivity and–with some limitations–to profits. This …