Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.48548/pubdata-1206
Resource typeWorking Paper
Title(s)Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: First Evidence from Quantile Regressions
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1206
Handle20.500.14123/1269
CreatorWagner, Joachim  0000-0001-6058-4536  129798215
Schank, Thorsten
Schnabel, Claus
Addison, John T.
AbstractUsing 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.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsProductivity; Works Councils; Quantile Regressions; Heterogeneousness; Produktivität; Betriebsrat; Heterogenität; Lineares Regressionsmodell
Year of publication in PubData2006
Publishing typeFirst publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2006-05-12
Creation contextResearch
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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