Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331511 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2025/29
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
Institutions representing the workers' voice have long been a contentious topic in the economic literature. Against a backdrop of inconclusive evidence and limited use of credible identification strategies, we study the impact of the 2015 policy change that introduced mandatory board-level employee representation in firms with over 1,000 employees in France. Using rich linked employer-employee data and two empirical strategies-a difference-in-differences and a difference-in-discontinuity approach-we examine how the reform affected firms and workers. Our results show a positive impact on job quality, with no evidence of adverse effects on firm performance, and heterogeneous effects between manufacturing and service sectors.
Subjects: 
Workers' Voice
Employee Representation
Job Quality
Corporate Governance
Difference-in-Discontinuity Design
JEL: 
J31
J53
K31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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