Paid vacation use: The role of works councils

Laszlo Goerke and Sabrina Jeworrek

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, vol. 42, issue 3, 473-503

Abstract: The article investigates the relationship between codetermination at the plant level and paid vacation in Germany. From a legal perspective, works councils have no impact on vacation entitlements, but they can affect their use. Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the study finds that male employees who work in an establishment, in which a works council exists, take almost two additional days of paid vacation annually, relative to employees in an establishment without such institution. The effect for females is much smaller, if discernible at all. The data suggest that this gender gap might be due to the fact that women exploit vacation entitlements more comprehensively than men already in the absence of a works council.

Keywords: Gender difference; German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP); paid vacation; works council (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Working Paper: Paid Vacation Use - The Role of Works Councils (2016)
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X18777611

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