TY - GEN A1 - Wagner, Joachim T1 - German Works Councils and Productivity: First Evidence from a Nonparametric Test N2 - This paper presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand in hand with higher labor productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for first order stochastic dominance tend to indicate that pro-productive effects are found in firms with collective bargaining only. However, the significance level of the test statistic is higher than a usually applied critical level. This somewhat weak evidence casts doubts on the validity of results from recent parametric approaches using a regression framework that point to high positive effects of works councils on productivity. T3 - University of Lüneburg Working paper series in economics - 14 KW - Betriebsrat KW - Produktivität KW - Stochastische Dominanz KW - Works councils KW - productivity KW - stochastic dominance Y1 - 2005 UR - http://pub-data.leuphana.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/381 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:luen4-opus-3331 ER -