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What Do We Know About The New European Works Councils? Some Preliminary Evidence From Britain

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  • John T. Addison
  • Clive R. Belfield

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EU legislation mandating European Works Councils (EWCs) was enacted in 1994. Although much descriptive information on the content of EWC agreements exists, little is known of the determinants and impact of these new institutional arrangements. In the present treatment, we exploit a question on EWC status in the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to provide the first econometric investigation of the determinants of (largely) voluntary transnational councils and their potential effect on establishment performance and employee attitudes. Many of the sharper criticisms of EWCs are not substantiated in the data, even if the benefits appear muted.

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  • John T. Addison & Clive R. Belfield, 2002. "What Do We Know About The New European Works Councils? Some Preliminary Evidence From Britain," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 49(4), pages 418-444, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scotjp:v:49:y:2002:i:4:p:418-444
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.00240
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    1. Koutroukis, Theodore, 2015. "The added value of European Works Councils: A case study approach in Greek subsidiaries," MPRA Paper 62741, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Addison, John T. & Siebert, W. Stanley, 2002. "Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K," IZA Discussion Papers 562, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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