German Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages

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ID3250338
AutoresJohn T Addison (0000-0001-5879-856X, Queen's University Belfast), Paulino Teixeira (0000-0002-1285-6776, Queen's University Belfast), Thomas Zwick (0000-0003-4032-1995, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Ano2010
Volume63
Fascículo2
Páginas247-270
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/001979391006300204
OpenAlexW1490109540
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas21

Using matched employer-employee data from the German LIAB for 2001, the authors found that German works councils are in general associated with higher earnings, even after accounting for establishment- and worker heterogeneity. Works council wage premia exceed those of collective bargaining and are higher, in fact, where both institutions are present in the workplace. The authors also found evidence indicating that works councils benefit women relative to men and appear to favor foreign, east-German, and service-sector workers as well. Separate evidence from quantile regressions suggests that the conjunction of works council presence and collective bargaining is important to the narrowing process. In smaller plants even the presence of a works council markup depends on the coexistence of the works council entity with the machinery of collective bargaining

Accrual · Business · Collective agreement · Collective bargaining · Earnings · Economics · Economy · German · Labour economics · Linguistics · Political science · Service (business) · Wage · Accounting · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Social Policy and Reform Studies