The authors provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, that is, worker
representation in firms' governance and management. The available micro evidence points …

The DTI's Corporate Law and Governance strategy aims to promote and deliver an effective
framework for corporate governance in the UK, giving confidence to investors, business, and …

In view of recent corporate scandals, we argue that corporate governance can learn from
public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behavior of executives …

We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German
institution of parity, board‐level co‐determination. Although our data span two severe …

In the last decade the notion of empowerment has become popular in I/O psychology and
management circles. Its currency among practitioners can be illustrated by the view of a …

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 …

Reversing the original signaling model, this study explains how employers signal the non-
observable quality of their workplace and thereby reduce labor shortages. Based on a …

This accessible introduction to the world economy and to the theory and practice of
globalization argues that key topics in international economics cannot be understood …

Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff's now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do?
stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade …

Research analyzing the importance of human capital for innovation usually focuses on
secondary and tertiary education. This paper takes a different perspective by focusing on in …