The Shortfall in Formal Employee Participation at the European Workplace

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

No 7399, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Cross-country data are used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in EU establishments with formal workplace employee representation. The desire for greater involvement is smaller where workplace representation is via works councils than union bodies, a finding that also obtains across country clusters. However, the favorable influence of the works council institution, if not information provision, does not carry over to situations in which management is adjudged uncooperative and untrustworthy. Whether the views of these respondents are representative of the workforce and hypothetically of a workforce currently without representation is also considered.

Keywords: formal workplace employee representation; works councils; union agencies; information; consultation; participation deficits; union density; country heterogeneity; industrial relations quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J53 J58 J83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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