Works councils: an agency perspective
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- Juan Miguel Gallego, 2014. "Works Councils: An Agency Perspective," Revista de EconomÃa del Rosario, Universidad del Rosario, June.
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Keywords
Workplace Representation; Works Councils; Collusion; Elections;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
- J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
- J83 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Workers' Rights
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2012-12-06 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2012-12-06 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-MIC-2012-12-06 (Microeconomics)
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