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Professor John Addison's Outputs (67)

Job Satisfaction and Workplace Representation in Europe (2024)
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Addison, J., & Teixeira, P. (online). Job Satisfaction and Workplace Representation in Europe. Manchester School, https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12499

The backdrop to this inquiry into the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation in European nations is twofold. The first is that the bulk of research has focused on union membership and job satisfaction in Anglophone... Read More about Job Satisfaction and Workplace Representation in Europe.

Strike incidence and outcomes: New evidence from the 2019 ECS (2023)
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Addison, J. T., & Teixeira, P. (2024). Strike incidence and outcomes: New evidence from the 2019 ECS. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 30(2), 123-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596801231206979

This paper investigates the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, the quality of industrial relations and strike incidence, as well as the implications of the matters at stake in localized disputes. Strike incidence is fo... Read More about Strike incidence and outcomes: New evidence from the 2019 ECS.

Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance in Europe (2023)
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Addison, J. T., & Teixeira, P. (online). Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance in Europe. Manchester School, 92(1), 40-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12455

Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey for 28 nations, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establi... Read More about Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance in Europe.

Performance and the Conjunction of Better Management Practices and Non-Union Workplace Representation (2023)
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Addison, J. T., Teixeira, P., & Bellmann, L. (online). Performance and the Conjunction of Better Management Practices and Non-Union Workplace Representation. Journal of Labor Research, 44, 1-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-023-09343-8

Using data from the European Company Survey for a cluster of nations possessing a common system of workplace representation, we consider two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance, namely the deployment of structured management pract... Read More about Performance and the Conjunction of Better Management Practices and Non-Union Workplace Representation.

Works Council ‘Disaffection’ and Establishment Survivability (2022)
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Addison, J. T., Teixeira, P., Grunau, P., & Bellmann, L. (2023). Works Council ‘Disaffection’ and Establishment Survivability. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 70(1), 38-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12330

This paper investigates the association between a measure of works council heterogeneity and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. Two datasets are used to identify failed establishments, while institutional heterogeneity is captured by management pe... Read More about Works Council ‘Disaffection’ and Establishment Survivability.

Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity (2022)
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Addison, J., Portugal, P., & Vilares, H. (2023). Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity. Journal of Econometrics, 233(2), 612-632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.12.002

We examine the association between union density and wages in Portugal where just 10 percent of all workers are union members but nine-tenths of them are covered by collective agreements. Using a unique dataset on workers, firms, and collective barga... Read More about Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity.

What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives (2021)
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Addison, J. T., & Teixeira, P. (2021). What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives. Research in labor economics, 49, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/s0147-912120210000049001

Using data from the 2013 European Company Survey, this chapter operationalizes the representation gap as the desire for greater employee involvement in decision-making expressed by the representative of the leading employee representative body at the... Read More about What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives.

Trust and Workplace Performance (2020)
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Addison, J., & Teixeira, P. (2020). Trust and Workplace Performance. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 58(4), 874-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12517

Using European Company Survey data, this paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance under two different types of workplace representation, works councils on the one hand and union bodies on the other. Trust is initial... Read More about Trust and Workplace Performance.

Occupational Skill Mismatch: Differences by Gender and Cohort (2019)
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Addison, J., Chen, L., & Ozturk, O. D. (2020). Occupational Skill Mismatch: Differences by Gender and Cohort. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 73(3), 730-767. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793919873864

The authors deploy a measure of occupational mismatch based on the discrepancy between the portfolio of skills required by an occupation and the array of abilities possessed by the worker for learning those skills. Using data from the Occupational In... Read More about Occupational Skill Mismatch: Differences by Gender and Cohort.

Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany: The deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work (2019)
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Addison, T., Teixeira, P., Grunau, P., & Bellmann, L. (2019). Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany: The deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work. Journal of participation and employee ownership, 2(1), 24-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpeo-11-2017-0003

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of key labor institutions on the occurrence and extent of temporary employment. Design/methodology/approach: In a new departure, this study uses a zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB)... Read More about Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany: The deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work.

Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments (2019)
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Addison, J. T., & Teixeira, P. (2019). Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 159, 109-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.01.006

This paper investigates the relationship between different types of workplace representation and strikes using the 2009 European Company Survey. It also examines the role of the workplace climate, union organization, and collective bargaining. Our pr... Read More about Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments.

The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: Evidence from a Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed effects Regression Model (2018)
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Torres, S., Portugal, P., Addison, J., & Guimarães, P. (2018). The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: Evidence from a Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed effects Regression Model. Labour Economics, 54, 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.06.004

This paper estimates a wage equation with three high-dimensional fixed effects, using a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset covering virtually all Portuguese private sector wage earners over a 26-year interval. First, the variation in log... Read More about The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: Evidence from a Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed effects Regression Model.

Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey (2018)
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Addison, J., & Texeira, P. (2019). Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 239(1), 111-154. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2017-0146

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and management perceptions of the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and sta... Read More about Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey.

The Occupational Feminization of Wages (2017)
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Addison, J., Ozturk, O., & Wang, S. (2018). The Occupational Feminization of Wages. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 7(1), 208-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793917708314

This article updates the 1995 study by Macpherson and Hirsch that used monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1973 to 1993 to examine the effects of occupational gender composition on earnings. In the updating process, the authors correct... Read More about The Occupational Feminization of Wages.

Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: A Case of Cooperative Industrial Relations? (2016)
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Addison, J., Teixeira, P., Evers, K., & Bellmann, L. (2017). Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: A Case of Cooperative Industrial Relations?. Industrial Relations, 56(1), 73-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12165

At the level of theory, the effect of collective bargaining on innovation is contested. The large proponderance of the U.S. evidence clearly points to adverse effects, but other-country experience suggests that certain industrial-relations systems, o... Read More about Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: A Case of Cooperative Industrial Relations?.

Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness (2016)
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Addison, J., Teixeira, P., Evers, K., & Bellmann, L. (2017). Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(3), 500-526. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12219

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known abou... Read More about Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness.

Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies (2016)
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Addison, J. (2016). Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies. IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 5(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40173-016-0075-8

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, somewhat greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adj... Read More about Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies.

Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal (2016)
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Addison, J., Portugal, P., & Vilares, H. (2017). Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(3), 551-576. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12198

Against the backdrop of its industrial relations architecture, characteristic of the ‘southern European group’ and intimately linked to the recommendations of the Troika, this paper examines four key aspects of Portuguese collective bargaining. First... Read More about Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal.