• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
  • Contributor: Jirjahn, Uwe [Author]; Smith, Stephen C. [Author]
  • imprint: Maastricht: Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2017
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: society ; Nonunion representation ; organizational failures ; works councils ; M50 ; market failures ; J50
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  • Description: Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review of research on the German experience with mandated works councils finds generally positive effects, though these effects depend on a series of moderating factors and some impacts remain ambiguous. Finally, key questions for empirical research on nonunion employee representation, which have previously been little analyzed in the literature, are reviewed.
  • Access State: Open Access