Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191756 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 312
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is significantly associated with an increased likelihood that the establishment provides more workplace health promotion than required by law. This result also holds in a recursive bivariate probit regression accounting for the possible endogeneity of works council incidence. Furthermore, analyzing potentially moderating factors such as collective bargaining coverage, industry, type of ownership, multiestablishment status and product market competition, we find a positive association between works councils and workplace health promotion for the various types of establishments examined. Finally, we go beyond the mere incidence of workplace health promotion and show that works councils are positively associated with a series of different measures of workplace health promotion.
Subjects: 
Non-union employee representation
works council
occupational health and safety
workplace health promotion
JEL: 
I18
J28
J50
J81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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