After more than 25 years of empirical investigation, the analysis of works council effects on establishment productivity is still an active field of economic research. I present first evidence for works council regression coefficients along the unconditional log labour productivity distribution in Germany. The highest (lowest) coefficients were found at the bottom (top) of the distribution, which suggests that works councils have the most beneficial effects at low levels of productivity. Importantly, coefficients are positive at each productivity level. The results shed light on a classical theoretical argument concerning moderating factors for the productivity effect of employee participation.
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Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean - Mueller - 2013 - British Journal of Industrial Relations - Wiley Online Library
%0 Journal Article
%1 mueller2015workscouncils
%A Mueller, Steffen
%D 2015
%J British Journal of Industrial Relations
%K effectiveness productivity workers_participation works_councils
%N 2
%P 308--325
%R 10.1111/bjir.12037
%T Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12037
%V 53
%X After more than 25 years of empirical investigation, the analysis of works council effects on establishment productivity is still an active field of economic research. I present first evidence for works council regression coefficients along the unconditional log labour productivity distribution in Germany. The highest (lowest) coefficients were found at the bottom (top) of the distribution, which suggests that works councils have the most beneficial effects at low levels of productivity. Importantly, coefficients are positive at each productivity level. The results shed light on a classical theoretical argument concerning moderating factors for the productivity effect of employee participation.
@article{mueller2015workscouncils,
abstract = {After more than 25 years of empirical investigation, the analysis of works council effects on establishment productivity is still an active field of economic research. I present first evidence for works council regression coefficients along the unconditional log labour productivity distribution in Germany. The highest (lowest) coefficients were found at the bottom (top) of the distribution, which suggests that works councils have the most beneficial effects at low levels of productivity. Importantly, coefficients are positive at each productivity level. The results shed light on a classical theoretical argument concerning moderating factors for the productivity effect of employee participation.},
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author = {Mueller, Steffen},
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description = {Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean - Mueller - 2013 - British Journal of Industrial Relations - Wiley Online Library},
doi = {10.1111/bjir.12037},
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issn = {1467-8543},
journal = {British Journal of Industrial Relations},
keywords = {effectiveness productivity workers_participation works_councils},
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pages = {308--325},
timestamp = {2015-05-13T15:50:07.000+0200},
title = {Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12037},
volume = 53,
year = 2015
}