mitbestimmung english

• Works Councils and Employment Growth: A Rejoinder to Uwe Jirjahn's Critique**/Works Councils and Employment Growth: A Reply to Addison and Teixeira**

In a characteristically combative treatment, Jirjahn (2008a) argues that Addison and Teixeira's (2006) finding of a negative relationship between works council presence and employment growth is a chimera produced by the way in which establishment size is measured. We reject his assertion of misspecification for two reasons; the second of which undoubtedly contributed to leading Jirjahn astray. And while Jirjahn's treatment is of interest in its own right, he does a poor job of portraying our overall analysis. Thus, he neglects our treatment of survival bias while ignoring our presentation of a dynamic labor demand model. Elsewhere he seems to grudgingly support the former (Jirjahn 2008b), and implicitly to accept our findings pertaining to employment adjustment (where we report that wor...

... 2008a) is written in German, I provide an English summary of my key results to inform the internatio...(2002): Ökonomik betrieblicher Mitbestimmung. Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag. Dunne, P./Hughes, A....

• Industrielle Beziehungen
• Band 15 Nr. 4, Oktober 2008