Employee Involvement And Pay At Us And Canadian Auto Suppliers

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Employee Involvement And Pay At Us And Canadian Auto Suppliers

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Susan Helper
David I. Levine
Elliot Bendoly

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We use survey data and field research to investigate the effects of employee involvement practices on outcomes for blue-collar workers in the auto-supply industry. We find these practices raise wages by 3-5%. The causal mechanism linking involvement and wages appears to be most consistent with efficiency-wage theories, and least consistent with compensating differences. We find no evidence that employee involvement affects plants' survival or employment growth. Copyright (c) 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Article provided by Blackwell Publishing in its journal Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.

Volume (Year): 11 (2002)
Issue (Month): 2 (06)
Pages: 329-377
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- Susan Helper & David Levine & Elliott Bendoly, 2000. "Employee Involvement and Pay at U.S. and Canadian Auto Suppliers," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series 1007, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
- Helper, S. & Levine, D.I. & Bendoly, E., 1999. "Employee Involvment and Pay at U.S. and Canadian Auto Suppliers," Papers 71, California Berkeley - Institute of Industrial Relations.

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