Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
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- Uwe JIRJAHN & Stephen C. SMITH, 2018. "Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory And The German Experience With Mandated Works Councils," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 89(1), pages 201-233, March.
- Stephen Smith & Uwe Jirjahn, 2017. "Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils," Working Papers 2017-22, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy.
- Uwe Jirjahn & Stephen C. Smith, 2017. "Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils," Research Papers in Economics 2017-08, University of Trier, Department of Economics.
- Jirjahn, Uwe & Smith, Stephen C., 2017. "Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils," IZA Discussion Papers 11066, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Nonunion representation; works councils; organizational failures; market failures; society;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
- M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2017-10-22 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2017-10-22 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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