Small firms provide and create a large proportion of jobs in Germany. Are these jobs worse
than jobs in larger firms? The mosaic picture that emerges from a review of several recent …

The authors provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, that is, worker
representation in firms' governance and management. The available micro evidence points …

Equity ownership gives labor both a fractional stake in a firm's residual cash flows and a
voice in corporate governance. Relative to other firms, labor-controlled publicly traded firms …

Under the German corporate governance system of codetermination, employees are legally
allocated control rights over corporate assets through seats on the supervisory board—that …

This paper investigates the interaction between establishment‐level codetermination and
industry‐level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a bargaining model, we derive …

The impact of unions on productivity is explored using meta‐analysis and meta‐regression
analysis. It is shown that most of the variation in published results is due to specification …

First published in 1985, Comparative Industrial Relations is a comprehensive introductory
text exploring the subject of cross-national comparisons of industrial relations. The book …

In recent years transaction cost economics have come to dominate the discussion of the
nature and organization of firms. In Transaction Costs Economics and Beyond Michael …

This paper measures the productivity impact of shop-floor employee involvement. On the
basis of a representative German establishment data set, the study finds that the introduction …

Works councils are the most important pillar of workplace industrial relations in Germany but
little is known of their economic effects. The paper uses a modern, large‐scale dataset to …