Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: First Evidence from Quantile Regressions
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In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 226, No. 5, 09.2006, p. 505-518.
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T1 - Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: First Evidence from Quantile Regressions
AU - Wagner, Joachim
AU - Schank, Thorsten
AU - Schnabel, Claus
AU - Addison, John T.
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper demonstrates that the impact of works council presence on labor productivity varies between manufacturing and services, between plants that are or are not covered by collective bargaining, and along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. No productivity effects of works councils are found for the service sector and in manufacturing plants not covered by collective bargaining. Besides demonstrating that it is important to look at evidence based on more than one data set, our empirical findings point to the efficacy of supplementing OLS with quantile regression estimates when investigating the behavior of heterogeneous plants.
AB - Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper demonstrates that the impact of works council presence on labor productivity varies between manufacturing and services, between plants that are or are not covered by collective bargaining, and along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. No productivity effects of works councils are found for the service sector and in manufacturing plants not covered by collective bargaining. Besides demonstrating that it is important to look at evidence based on more than one data set, our empirical findings point to the efficacy of supplementing OLS with quantile regression estimates when investigating the behavior of heterogeneous plants.
KW - Economics
KW - Betriebsrat
KW - Arbeitsproduktivität
KW - labor productivity
KW - works councils
KW - quantile regression
KW - heterogeneous firms
KW - Heterogeneous firms
KW - Labor productivity
KW - Quantile regressions
KW - Works councils
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33751119797&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/jbnst-2006-0504
DO - 10.1515/jbnst-2006-0504
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 226
SP - 505
EP - 518
JO - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
JF - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
SN - 0021-4027
IS - 5
ER -