Employee participation and productivity

Labour Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 715-740

  Zwick, Thomas ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employee participation; Establishment productivity; Panel regression; Works council

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944255795     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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