German works councils in the production process
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German works councils in the production process. / Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim et al.
Lüneburg : Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2003. (Arbeitsbericht; Nr. 288).Publikation: Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere und Berichte › Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere
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T1 - German works councils in the production process
AU - Schank, Thorsten
AU - Schnabel, Claus
AU - Wagner, Joachim
AU - Addison, John T.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first differences. Once we focus on a core sample of establishments with 21 to 100 employees in which the powers of the works council are a datum, it emerges that the positive productivity differential found in recent studies is a chimera. By the same token, neither is the works council effect negative. This result is important in its own right given the sharply opposing findings of past empirical research and the partisan positions these have helped sustain.
AB - We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first differences. Once we focus on a core sample of establishments with 21 to 100 employees in which the powers of the works council are a datum, it emerges that the positive productivity differential found in recent studies is a chimera. By the same token, neither is the works council effect negative. This result is important in its own right given the sharply opposing findings of past empirical research and the partisan positions these have helped sustain.
KW - Economics
KW - Betriebsrat
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Arbeitsbericht
BT - German works councils in the production process
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -