Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259295 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1103
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This chapter reviews the economic effects of employee representation with statutory consultation and information rights at the workplace, the works councils. The chapter summarises the international literature which is heavily skewed towards the German case. This review focuses, first, on the mechanisms that enable the productivity enhancing role of works councils. Second, the review discusses the context factors that hamper or facilitate the productivity enhancing role of works councils. The chapter will start discussing the economic consequences of German works councils and then review the evidence obtained from other countries.
Subjects: 
works councils
codetermination
consultation
productivity
management practices
JEL: 
J53
M54
J50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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